pedestal
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Where the MT1 puts small on a pedestal, the Slate Truck worships simple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Don Colossus stands proud atop a stone pedestal, keeping vigil over a small commemorative plaque.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
But some in the industry would argue that, despite their cultural and economic contributions, games aren't placed on the same pedestal as other creative sectors.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
“I don’t believe that there is one hero for our movements. Movements are led by a collective, and you can’t create some pedestal for one person, because humans will always fail you.”
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026
“Putting Luma on a pedestal is counterproductive,” she wrote me once in an email.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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Some artificial-intelligence stocks that got knocked off their pedestals, in part due to a bruising July selloff, now represent attractive opportunities for investors, according to BofA analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Nothing is left but the pedestals of the memorials and a few of the stones from them," he wrote online.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
“They are treated as gods and goddesses and put on pedestals for searching for and ‘representing’ truth and knowledge and recognizing and being proud of who they are and where they come from.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Parisi, together with a team of scientists, explored the limits of pedestals and investigated how much pressure could be applied to plasma inside a fusion reactor before instabilities appeared.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
A row of pedestals runs down the middle, leading to a tall red door in the middle of the back wall.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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But to Back Bay he is an idol, firmly pedestaled.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The trainer swaggered up to a pedestaled tiger, thrust the chair at its open jaws.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Coal followed one of the curves to the closest pedestaled mirror.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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V. And we stopped beside the statue Of the marble Venus there Deeply pedestaled 'mid roses, Who their crimson hearts laid bare, Breathing out their lives in fragrance At her naked feet and fair.
From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein
As we drove up to the porticoed front door I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sun-dial with which we had such strange associations.
From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Rather turn Whither, upon the upland, pedestalled Into the broad day-splendour, whom discern These eyes but thee, supreme one, rightly called Moon-maid in heaven above and, here below, Earth's huntress-queen?
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph?
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons
As we drove up to the porticoed front door, I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sundial with which we had such strange associations.
From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It rises full over the desert; and a vast horizon comes into relief, broken by a huge shape which soon reveals itself in the spreading radiance as a Sphinx pedestalled on the sands.
From Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw
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