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Recent Examples of plinth
The sculpture at first appears to be a minimalistic glass cube placed on a plinth.
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Christy Lange, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
In Cam Thanh village, near the tourist hotspot of Hoi An, the Casamia Community House rises on a concrete plinth above a tidal river.
—Faye Bradley, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
The sculpture is not large, measuring 7-feet wide and standing 6-foot-6 inches high without a plinth.
—Eric Adler
august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
These include a solid plinth, precision tonearm and a premium platter.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
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Christy Lange, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
In Cam Thanh village, near the tourist hotspot of Hoi An, the Casamia Community House rises on a concrete plinth above a tidal river.
—Faye Bradley, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
The sculpture is not large, measuring 7-feet wide and standing 6-foot-6 inches high without a plinth.
—Eric Adler
august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
These include a solid plinth, precision tonearm and a premium platter.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plinth
Noun
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Collections and designers put their best foot forward, delivering high-caliber collections — some were uplifting, others were thought-provoking, most were both.—
Laure Guilbault,
Vogue,
30 Jan. 2026
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Hard day for software Microsoft was beat up from the feet up , losing about 10% on Thursday.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Rhoades will have the buck mounted on a pedestal to display on a whiskey barrel in his business office.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
28 Jan. 2026
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Kaavia blew a kiss to the audience and left the pedestal.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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An additional 200 on-call contractors have been notified to be on stand-by for potential deployment to support DOT crews.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
24 Jan. 2026
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It’s being said Texas — a university, mind you — will have a $40 million NIL payroll, which means this is Steve Sarkisian’s last stand.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Trump on the inauguration dais, that sort of thing.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2026
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For the first time in roughly 20 years, there were two Democratics seated on the PSC’s dais.—
Drew Kann,
AJC.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Walking onto the rostrum to deliver his eighth and final State of the State address, Governor Ron DeSantis patted Senate President Ben Albritton on the back and shook his hand.—
Jim DeFede,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2026
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Long-time Capitol observers were aghast that DeSantis stepped down from the House speaker’s rostrum without even a perfunctory handshake with Perez, who has the power to reject everything DeSantis wants in his last year in office.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But try extending that same indulgence to Olympic podiums and the Nobel Banquet Hall — in those arenas, the margins are razor-thin, and mastery demands long marination.—
Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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Omar was hosting a town hall event in North Minneapolis on Tuesday evening when a man in a black jacket rushed toward the podium and sprayed her with a liquid.—
Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Their rosters almost all include a stable foundation of offensive weapons.—
Gladys Louise Tyler,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Using cranes, they will be stacked on the prepared foundation and assembled into an apartment complex that, once wrapped with a facade and landscaped, looks like any other, Peinemann said.—
Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
23 Jan. 2026
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The platform acts as a firewall for the schools, Simpkins said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Jan. 2026
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At his insistence, much of his music was removed from the platform for several months beginning in 2015 because of his concerns about audio quality.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Plinth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plinth. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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