pedestal
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Standing on a concrete pedestal, the statue will depict the pontiff with open arms, wearing his long papal robe and a crucifix around his neck.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
She puts him a little bit on a pedestal, and I think he really needs that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Parton asked them to withdraw the bill, saying that “given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time.”
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Drake was very highly regarded before then. For some people, that knocked him off the pedestal a bit.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Directly beneath the familiar black dragon painting there was an ornate crystal pedestal on which rested a gold chalice encrusted with tiny jewels.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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
Fundamentally, the new model enhances our understanding of pedestals and brings scientists closer to achieving the greater goal of designing a fusion reactor that generates more power than it consumes.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
There are also two “Starry ball” pedestals behind the third rack, to the left and right, worth three points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
The vault is a wide, dark space with little spotlights shining down on long rows of pedestals.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
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
Coal followed one of the curves to the closest pedestaled mirror.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
“Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?”
From The Carleton Case by Ellery H. Clark
A body less firmly pedestalled upon powerful legs and scoop-shovel feet would have gone down.
From The Devil's Asteroid by Manly Wade Wellman
She stands pedestalled on the lotus of our heart.
From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity.
From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
It was Cromwell's mood, as one who, living under the eye of God, scorned the vapourings of pedestalled mortals.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
Tuscarora County was put through its paces for a gaping world; Clinton's Ditch—"well-spring of New York's commercial supremacy, gentlemen"—shown in rosiest apotheosis; the Empire State pedestalled imperially among the nations.
From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
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