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pulpit

noun

Definition of pulpit

as in altar

a raised flat surface where a priest or minister stands when leading a worship service The pastor ascended the pulpit.

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Recent Examples of pulpit Hurst in ‘93 was among the first inside the church upon the flooding, which lifted the pews off the floor and toppled the statues and rose high enough, more than 9 feet, to fill the pulpit. — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026 The church plans to continue upholding core Baptist principles, including congregational autonomy free from a hierarchy, a free pulpit and religious freedom, Hudson said. — Zaire Breedlove, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026 Politicians routinely invoke faith on the campaign trail, speak from pulpits and frame policy debates in moral terms. — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 21 June 2026 The church’s parklike campus took up an entire block on Fifth Avenue, and its high pulpit was occupied by Harry Emerson Fosdick, a bespectacled liberal Baptist minister. — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for pulpit

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Aneha shouts to the crowd and then dances off the altar, like this is all a fun gag.

— Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
To defend us all from another generation's youth, treasure and opportunity squandered at the altar of endless war.

— Eric Henderson, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

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All six podium finishers at Berlin were also wearing the same shoe, a showing even more impressive than when all three men’s medal runners at the 2016 Olympics wore the original Nike Vaporfly.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 1 Nov. 2026
This is just the latest variation on a particular theme by the architects at bKL Architecture — a tower raised above a roof deck atop a low-rise podium.

— Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026

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