daises

Definition of daisesnext
plural of dais
as in podiums
a level usually raised surface the speaker took his place at the front of the dais

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Noun
  • Rather than rushing recovery or forcing results early in the season, Santos-Griswold made a deliberate decision to build slowly toward February 2026, when Olympic medals—not early-season podiums—will matter most.
    Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Casual images show giants of the Chicano movement — Cesar Chavez, Bert Corona, Reies López Tijerina, José Angel Gutiérrez — behind podiums or chatting with admirers.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Think sports fans whose only food options at a game are at stands all operated by the same big concessionaire.
    Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Make sure the label of commercial juice products says pasteurized, and be aware that juices from places like farmers' markets and fruit stands are often not pasteurized.
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Some platforms, such as Deezer, have explored user-centric or equitable remuneration models that pay artists based on what individual subscribers actually listen to.
    Shain Shapiro, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Guo says the approach can be scaled up to much larger sizes suitable for load-bearing platforms.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • With her latest, Pearce puts forth a perspective of grace and faith, offering a rebuttal to shame, guilt, and judgmental messages that can too often flow from church pulpits and critical people.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Hillsides and fields that were once mosaics of blue phlox, wood poppies and Jack-in-the-pulpits have become swaths of monochrome yellow.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The onslaught really began in the early stages of the second half as the USWNT scored five goals in a 15-minute span to blow open a once close game.
    Damian Calhoun, Daily News, 25 Jan. 2026
  • At least three large pieces of space debris — old satellites and spent rocket stages — fall back to Earth every day on average, but researchers have only a very limited understanding of where these potentially dangerous fragments land and what happens to them in the atmosphere.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 24 Jan. 2026
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“Daises.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daises. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.

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