rostrum
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The address will mark the first time in five years that Newsom delivers a State of the State from the Assembly rostrum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
Barker is like a 6-foot-4-inch dancer at the rostrum, and he gives people time to deliberate, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
In November 2017, Jussi Pylkkänen, the global president of Christie’s, was on the rostrum in New York to sell Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
As the president began his address, he turned to the newly elected speaker behind him on the rostrum and congratulated him.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
The scythes all rose and lined up before two basins, one on either side of the rostrum.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Twelve thousand words long,* it was handed to clerks in the House and Senate who intoned it from the nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The body had been placed in a gilded bed, under a magnificent canopy in the form of a temple, before the rostra where the funeral discourse was to be pronounced.
From History of Julius Caesar by Abbott, Jacob
Both possess flat skulls with wide, short rostra.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
They suck food through strawlike beaks called rostrums.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
It's incredible how focused and single-minded you have to be, and how hard you have to train, even to think about going to the Olympics, let alone standing on any rostrums.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
Recently, he has made a special effort to show him self in public, waving the hand, grasping trophies, gripping rostrums as he delivers his speeches in the familiar piping voice.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The secont night of my arjuous labors on the meetin' house, he began wild and eloquent about wimmen bein' on Conferences, and mountin' rostrums.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 by Holley, Marietta
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