pulpit
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The controller has a bully pulpit to vent about the city’s dire financial straits, as well as auditing powers to unearth where the city might be overspending, but does not actually manage the budget.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The Health Secretary has also used his bully pulpit to attack products he views as toxins, including pesticides and fluoride in water.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
Suddenly the lines about needing a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit came so much more alive from the endless horizon atop a watchtower.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
Roosevelt’s challenge to Wall Street, he writes, “was largely a bully pulpit affair, with rhetoric exceeding action.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
There, a great crowd of misshapen individuals are gathered around an old man in a pulpit made of cobwebs; he says nothing, but blows bubbles.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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