plinth

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Recent Examples of plinth The three princesses Atzimba, Eréndira and Tzetzangari The sculpture is not large — measuring 7 feet wide and standing 6 feet, 6 inches tall without a plinth — but its history is. Eric Adler june 24, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026 The main threat is vibrations, but with the help of vibration expert Kerstin Kracht, those have been reduced by 96 percent, says the report, to the same level a sculpture experiences on a plinth in a museum as visitors walk by. Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 4 June 2026 The monument, which depicts Rodney on horseback, was taken down from its plinth in Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware in 2020 in response to Black Lives Matter protests and a nationwide reckoning with racist police violence. News Desk, Artforum, 27 May 2026 Workers mixed mortar and drove a scissor lift to the edge of a concrete plinth surmounted by four steel rods—supports for the Buddha, whose sandstone body would slide down them in four parts, like beads in an abacus. Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for plinth
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Noun
  • Gifting bird's-eye views of London from 138 feet above the River Thames, this permanent feature debuted in 2014 as one of the most unique vantage points in the city.
    Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
  • What this means in practice is that the coaster car climbs up a vertical hill before hurtling around 1,230 feet of track culminating in a vertical spire.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The Polish statue is taller — if less dramatically located — than the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which measures some 125 feet including its pedestal.
    Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The statue features a viewing platform built inside its pedestal.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • As John walks several miles to catch up to Hal (who takes pictures with adoring fans at a taco stand), a holographic construct of a younger Hal emerges from the ring and briefly interacts with John.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Just look at the new stand — the sheer size of it shows the club’s ambition.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • During protests following the 2018 police shooting and killing of Stephon Clark, his brother, Stevante Clark, jumped onto the dais near then-Mayor Darrell Steinberg's seat during a protest that took over a council meeting.
    Steve Large, CBS News, 30 July 2026
  • The employees got sausage rolls, tea boxes and sat on the dais where Andy Walker, Team England’s communications lead, held news conferences for a player.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • Helena Newman, Sotheby’s chairman of both Europe and Impressionist and modern art, took to the rostrum for the second part of the sale.
    George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2026
  • The rostrum is covered in what is called Ampullae of Lorenzini, which are specialized sensory organs filled with gel that conduct electricity and allow the goblin sharks to search for squid, fish and crustaceans in the dark.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • Kaufman County District Attorney Erleigh Norville Wiley took the podium after Raybould, praising the collaboration.
    Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The Throne Room Duel & A-Wing comes with two battle podiums, where the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader minifigures can be placed to have an epic lightsaber duel.
    Chris McMullen, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • To that end, Jurin is building its own highly efficient, domain-specific foundation model—much of the frontier capability at a fraction of the compute cost, for customers who cannot, or will not, depend on a model owned in Washington or Beijing.
    Jurin AI Contributor, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Their foundation of Leo Carlsson, Cutter Gauthier and Beckett Sennecke gives them legit top-of-the-lineup forwards with premium offensive traits.
    Corey Pronman, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • OpenRouter's fivefold volume jump suggests deflation and platform revenue are not mechanically opposed, and nobody outside Stripe has the data to say which effect dominates.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Clippable moments from his campaign speeches have repeatedly taken off on social media platforms and garnered millions of views.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

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“Plinth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plinth. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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