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as in podium
a level usually raised surface you'll have to stand up there on the platform for your speech

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as in forum
a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information for years the publisher has used his newspaper as a platform for his extreme political conservatism

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Recent Examples of platform On Instagram, on any kind of platform. Ariana Quihuiz, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025 The decision in Gardner’s favor could become a significant ruling for celebrities who use humor, exaggeration and sarcasm that some might find inappropriate when responding to strangers on social media platforms. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025 The sound has become a trending audio on the platform, where it is frequently paired with memes or home videos such as this one that show family members or pets waiting in line. Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025 Earlier this month, the chipmaker also agreed to pour $5 billion into rival Intel as part of an arrangement that calls for the latter's central processing units to be integrated into Nvidia's AI infrastructure platforms. Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for platform
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Noun
  • Sorkin’s win was among the film’s three trips to the podium.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Hamilton is still adapting to his SF-25 F1 car and has thus not secured even a single podium finish this season.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thirty minutes is a reasonable overall time limit on the open forum session, and limiting each speaker’s time to three minutes maximizes the number of people who may speak during that time.
    Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Russia’s nuclear energy push At the forum, Putin also highlighted the various advancements Russia is making in the field of nuclear energy.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The new space will offer wellness areas, lactation rooms and sit-stand workstations.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Anyone will tell you that the real stand-out of the film, though, is Michael Stuhlbarg, reuniting with the director after 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, who plays Roberts’s therapist husband.
    Morgan Baila, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The shooting in a small, idyllic waterfront community adds to the growing list of bars, restaurants, shopping centers, schools and other venues in the US generally thought of as safe that have experienced gun violence.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
  • However, the Buccaneers were also looking to remain undefeated, and Sirianni's trash-talking of Mayfield could also fire him up in his home venue.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His senior Great Dane, Monroe, sprawls out on the floor between the music and the old pulpit.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The pulpit dates back to 1609 and was originally in the church in Tórshavn.
    Katherine LaGrave, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Several local media outlets reported that one or more drones were seen near or above the Karup Air Base, which is Denmark’s biggest military base.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The outlet said authorities specified that the drones were launched locally and did not come from Russia.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This stage would also see humanitarian aid flow immediately to the desperate population in Gaza.
    Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The first steps have been hard, but with a solid system and team buy-in, early-stage AI implementation is already a huge productivity booster.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Platform.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platform. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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