dais
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When Mullin walked to the dais, he shook only one hand: O'Brien's.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
The party would have been better off in the end if he had just fallen asleep on the dais.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
Trump addressed the executives from a lectern on a makeshift dais a few feet away from them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Westminster Vice Mayor Carlos Manzo, the lone Democrat on the dais and the sole vote against designating the street in Kirk’s honor, at times appeared at a loss for words over Nguyen’s proposal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
At the end of the room was a small dais, and, on it, a cream-colored casket with several displays of flowers arranged about it: scarlets and yellows and whites and deep, bloody purples.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
It's a pretty neat trick for a plant, but also pretty baffling to botanists, who have been intrigued by beetle daises for centuries.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2023
But the truth has a way of seeping out, sometimes in unlikely places, like the daises of presidential libraries.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
This time, senators were spread out on two sets of daises.
From Fox News ● May 5, 2020
After the first break, most of the senators who had already asked questions elected not to return, and the entire bottom row of daises was entirely empty for much of the remaining time.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2018
He would stride the daises and the stages with his voice strong and clear, unafraid to speak the language like a Puritan and like a Chinaman and like every boat person in between.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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