pedestal
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"Putting yourself on a pedestal is not going to help this conversation. Public trust is not something you're entitled to, you earn it. Actions have consequences."
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
At City Hall, the statue of Columbus stood atop a stone pedestal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Don Colossus stands proud atop a stone pedestal, keeping vigil over a small commemorative plaque.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
They’re here, they’re there, they move from pedestal to pedestal.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Presently the crystal ball was before her, on its own pedestal.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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
The lower level of the Winners Gallery has cars on pedestals that are banked 9 degrees, 12 minutes—the same as the four banked turns of the racetrack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
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
It has already spend millions of pounds on the west London crossing since microfractures were discovered in its pedestals in 2019.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024
Along the way, I noticed a lot of empty pedestals that usually held statues.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
But to Back Bay he is an idol, firmly pedestaled.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trainer swaggered up to a pedestaled tiger, thrust the chair at its open jaws.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Coal followed one of the curves to the closest pedestaled mirror.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
One wonders how it must seem to pass that figure of himself, pedestaled high in the old square.
From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne
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
He really must get some one to give him that little pedestalled Cupid which he saw yesterday in Wardour Street.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
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
She stands pedestalled on the lotus of our heart.
From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
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