rostrum
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Andrew Ewbank, who runs Ewbank's and conducted the sale from the rostrum himself, told bidders he was "going for a lie down" afterwards.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Its rostrum measures approximately 10 centimeters long but reaches an extraordinary 6 centimeters in width, making it the thickest known example of its kind.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
From the rostrum, Barker leaned in dramatically, smiled, sometimes waited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
Three judges, two in black, the third in red, entered with files in hand and walked briskly to the rostrum which dominated the room.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
They are best known for their distinctive, bullet-shaped internal skeletal structures, called rostra or guards, which are often the only parts of the animals that survive in the fossil record.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Specimens from 12 miles west of Pagosa Springs have thin rostra and diffuse dorsal stripes.
From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Phillip M. Youngman
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
But although the designs of Lissitzky and others were used quite often for hoardings, rostrums and so forth, there is no way of judging their actual political effect, if any.
From Time Magazine Archive
How often were they declaimed from the school rostrums in the days, dear reader, when you and I were young!
From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
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