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
“The people’s house is back in business,” Mr. Johnson told lawmakers in his inaugural address, delivered from the speaker’s rostrum.
From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2023
Tansy stuck her in the crook of her arm and climbed the rostrum to settle her in teacher’s chair behind the desk.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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