rostrum
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The address will mark the first time in five years that Newsom delivers a State of the State from the Assembly rostrum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
From the rostrum, Barker leaned in dramatically, smiled, sometimes waited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
In November 2017, Jussi Pylkkänen, the global president of Christie’s, was on the rostrum in New York to sell Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Religious conservatives cheered Johnson’s election Wednesday, after which he brought his Bible to the rostrum before taking the oath of office.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
Three judges, two in black, the third in red, entered with files in hand and walked briskly to the rostrum which dominated the room.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twelve thousand words long,* it was handed to clerks in the House and Senate who intoned it from the nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
The three projecting rostra which we now see in front of the palace are restorations by Signor Rosa.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
III.38 common pulpits: rostra, the public platforms in the Forum.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
They suck food through strawlike beaks called rostrums.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
It's incredible how focused and single-minded you have to be, and how hard you have to train, even to think about going to the Olympics, let alone standing on any rostrums.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
Recently, he has made a special effort to show him self in public, waving the hand, grasping trophies, gripping rostrums as he delivers his speeches in the familiar piping voice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Socrates taught his great truths, not from public rostrums, but in personal converse.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
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