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 Alex Little, the attorney for Todd and Julie Chrisley, will be first up on the podium to answer questions. Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025 After the same high school athlete won a different triple jump competition on May 17, the second-place winner stood on the first-place podium following the awards ceremony. Joey Garrison, USA Today, 28 May 2025 Throughout the ’90s and 2000s, Monaco victors Mika Häkkinen, David Coulthard, Kimi Räikkönen and Lewis Hamilton have all worn TAG Heuer watches while accepting their first-place trophies on the podium. Footwear News, 23 May 2025 Mixed Senior Open Doubles: Top seeds Julie Johnson & Steve Deakin returned to the podium together and gave both players the double senior gold for the weekend. Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for podium
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Noun
  • Legacy media companies have struggled to maintain their foothold in recent years as viewers shift to alternative platforms for news and entertainment.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 9 June 2025
  • Marcus Loew was a member of that first generation, who, owning a chain of theatres, went west to see whether he could get involved in actually making movies—like a modern-day tech tycoon with a platform looking for product.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Shohei Ohtani is there as well, in the late stages of Tommy John surgery rehab that could be completed just after the All Star break.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • Instead, Lloyd employed a bare stage and an ensemble of actors dressed all in black.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Pastor Lorenzo Jones stood in a tub of water in his white pulpit gown.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
  • Their cross-racial sisterhood expanded the civil rights imagination beyond male pulpits and courtrooms.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Hang it between trees or on a hammock stand to unwind outside all summer.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 4 June 2025
  • The homemade structure, 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide, represents the last stand for Flores and a larger protest that captured national attention in March 2020.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Behind the rostrum where manager David Moyes was to give his post-match press conference, an Everton staff member was rushing to erect new branding with the law firm’s name.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Some sellers insist on having him at the rostrum as a condition of turning over their goods to Sotheby’s, which, amid a broader art-sale slump, has been dogged by reports of financial troubles.
    CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP, Air Mail, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • Van Der Mark enjoys a fellow conservative majority on the Huntington Beach City Council dais — but in Sacramento, Democrats lead the legislature and executive branch.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 23 May 2025
  • After an hour of public comment and lengthy discussion on the dais, Gastonia City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to make a local Juneteenth festival a city event — helping the organizers avoid thousands in fees prompted by a controversial city policy.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Trump and comparable tribunes of national greatness are now setting the global agenda.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Trump may have proved to be a uniquely popular tribune for this constituency.
    Arthur C. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
Noun
  • Kevin Mazur/Getty Images June 8, 2025: Deux Moi shares photos of Eilish and Nat Wolff kissing and taking selfies on a balcony in Italy.
    Glamour, Glamour, 8 June 2025
  • The longtime friend and former co-worker of Combs' ex-girlfriend Ventura testified that Combs dangled her from a 17th-floor balcony and threw her into a coffee table in a moment of unprovoked rage.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 June 2025

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“Podium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/podium. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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