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
As is customary, Mr. Johnson banged the gavel when Mr. Biden stepped up to the rostrum.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
“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
Charlie said, watching Tansy’s return to the rostrum, and the way she gathered her skirts.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The bow of a ship was generally ornamented by the head of some animal, such as a wild boar or a wolf, or some imaginary creature placed above the rostra.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
From its rostra, or stone platform, addresses were delivered by political agitators to open-air assemblies of the people.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
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
Twice during the week, the President mounted rostrums to defend his stand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both the upper and the lower-enterprises, however, remained for many years after their inception in a quiescent state, serving simply as topics of newspaper discussion, or of buncombe addresses from local rostrums.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
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