as in platform
a level usually raised surface the conductor on the podium tonight is one of the leading figures of classical music

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Recent Examples of podium Deftones complete the podium with Private Music, their 10th studio album. Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2025 In the Youth Men’s event, China swept the podium, with Holy Rain (Cui Shengyu), TJR (Tong Jierong), and Purple One (Huang Ziyi) taking first, second, and third, respectively. Jason Pu, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 George Russell of Great Britain and Mercedes applauds from the podium during the F1 Grand Prix of Hungary at Hungaroring on August 3, 2025 in Budapest, Hungary. Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025 Leavitt unloaded on Psaki, her predecessor, at the podium. Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for podium
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  • In an analysis of over a billion job postings, labor insight platform LightCast identified not only a surge in demand for AI skills, but also higher average pay for jobs that required them.
    Dylan Butts Shreya Ghosal, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Jordan Wood, a former congressional aide, jumped into the race early on a platform of transparency.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The brutal beatdown gained traction online as the video of several victims being thrown to the ground and assaulted shocked the nation, forcing local leaders to answer for the unnecessary violence in a series of events that continue to play out on the national stage.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • America's Got Talent contestant Avalon Penrose, who introduced herself as someone who sang opera in her childhood, brought chaos — and fun — to the stage.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Fuller will continue to lead the church’s congregation and fulfill his responsibilities as the pulpit minister, church officials said.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Let voices of care ring out of every pulpit, speak from every heart and be extended with kind acts from every hand.
    Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • The cover stars, whose issue is on stands now, divulged their creative passions (stand-up comedy for the cookbook author and acting for the high school sophomore) and how the mother-daughter-duo are helping each other succeed.
    Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The restaurant started as a hamburger stand for his son, Norm, Schock’s uncle, the four original walls of which remain as part of the restaurant.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Then a jagged rostrum breached from below the murky water.
    Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • When the ornate clock mounted on the wall just below the section of the second-floor gallery that faces the speaker's rostrum hit the 11:55 p.m. mark, the pace was breakneck.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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  • The Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Before the city council voted to temporarily suspend the anti-discrimination law, nearly a dozen residents spoke in front of the dais disapproving the action.
    Rachel Royster September 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The film, premiering in competition on Sunday night, features Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Moore and Luka Sabbat, all of whom joined Blanchett on the dais.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • Why, look about you: the tribune, the press, intelligence, speech, thought, all that was liberty, has vanished.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • Trump and comparable tribunes of national greatness are now setting the global agenda.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The alleged torture included being duct taped across their mouth, sleeping outside on Jodi’s balcony in the middle of the winter in Utah and being forced to run for hours at a time.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • There are the shimmering, silver-leafed balcony boxes that create a scalloped collar around the upper level of the grand ballroom in which anyone who was anyone once waltzed or sang or partied hard.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025

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“Podium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/podium. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.

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