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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 For Joya Patel, Laid Off is a platform to remind people of the importance of certain careers. Abigail Covington, New York Times, 3 May 2025 All the action from this year’s Kentucky Derby will be broadcast on NBC, and the race can also be watched on various other streaming platforms, such as Peacock and Hulu. Ben Church, CNN Money, 3 May 2025 Researchers unveiled a cluster of vulnerabilities in Apple’s wireless media streaming platform AirPlay this week that leave millions of third-party devices like speakers and TVs vulnerable to takeover if an attacker is on the same Wi-Fi network as the victim gadget. Matt Burgess, Wired News, 3 May 2025 The new courses were created using generative artificial intelligence (AI) and were announced shortly after the company publicly released an email from CEO Luis von Ahn stating the platform would be shifting to AI. Staff, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for platform
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Noun
  • Golden, at 21 years old and donning a radiant gold-and-black suit, grabbed the microphone on the podium in front of a crowd later announced as 205,000 people.
    Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • His brother Deion Sanders Jr. was also in attendance as the family collectively awaited to hear their surname called from the podium.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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  • That could be game-changing for everything from dating apps to political forums to online education.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • The mayor previously floated parts of this plan last month at a National Action Network forum.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
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  • Massimo Dutti linen stand collar shirt $120 MASSIMO DUTTI Kallmeyer Clemence pleated cotton-blend twill barrel-leg pants $510 NET-A-PORTER With a Printed Maxi Dress and a Basket Bag One of our favorite ways to wear sneakers during the spring and summer?
    Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2025
  • From 1875 to 1929 it was delineated by a simple circle outlined in chalk (hence the name), but today the circle is much more esteemed with presentation stands and roses planted in the shape of a horseshoe.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2025
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  • This venue was much larger and housed a bigger crowd in contrast to her 2016 show at the now-defunct Rough Trade NYC location in Brooklyn—further proof of Dacus’ growing fan base.
    David Chiu, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • That venue has since closed, so the show has been transferred to Mrs. Murphy’s, which previously hosted Ghostlight’s holiday cabarets.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • From courthouses to study halls and pulpits to Senate floors, Black leaders have changed the world’s vision about what access to justice looks like in real time.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • He has been suspended from his post more than once for such actions as adopting children and inveighing against Hillary Clinton from his pulpit during the 2008 election.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • In surveillance footage shared by the outlet, Angel can be seen running on the field as a dog appears behind him, then seemingly biting the child on the back of the leg.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 3 May 2025
  • Fake words creeping like kudzu into scientific papers and dating profiles and e-mails and text messages and news outlets and social feeds and job listings and job applications.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
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  • Morrissey is planning to get back on stage at Centennial Hall in Tucson, AZ on Monday night (May 5) after postponing a pair of shows on his spring U.S. tour over the weekend due to health issues.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 May 2025
  • On Friday night, Gaga treated fans by rehearsing on the stage, giving them a teaser of what was to come.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 May 2025

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“Platform.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platform. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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