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pedestal

[ped-uh-stl] / ˈpɛd ə stl /


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A "Japan glazer" is "someone who puts everything that comes from Japan on a pedestal, while disparaging things that come from their own country", Louzembi said.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

“We’re all sitting there at the Forum and he’s on the damn pedestal talking and he said, ‘I’m guaranteeing everyone here next year we are going to win it again.’

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

The classic at-home birthday party was never really about putting one person on a very expensive pedestal.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2026

As long as you don’t put your adviser on a pedestal — and then express disappointment when you realize they aren’t all-knowing sages — you set yourself up for a stronger, less fraught relationship.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

We got there just in time to see the men using a big crane to lift up the fifty-ton pedestal, swing it over the foundation, and lower it in place.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman




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