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rostra

noun

variants or rostrums

plural of rostrum

as in podiums

a level usually raised surface stood on a rostrum to address the huge crowd

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Competitors had to lift them onto podiums at different heights in the quickest time possible.

— Rob Tanner, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
The points are represented by plastic eyeballs dropped into decorative glass urns on their player podiums, styled like museum exhibits — a fun bit of whimsy in the production design that unites the ideas of vision and museum art.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

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The creator-dynamics research explicitly models this relationship between platform exposure and follower accumulation, which gives platforms an unusual position in influencer marketing.

— Sergi Cerrato, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
With one operator to many robotic platforms, the company’s autonomous systems are designed to reduce the number of combat engineers needed to complete a breach.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

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Almost everything in this vast, artificial indoor garden, including the surrounding stands of bamboo and a woebegone girl sprouting angel wings, is rendered in the Belgian artist’s signature ash gray.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026
The Aquadome Market returns with four new food stands, plus Crème de la Crêpe and Simply Pressed juice bar.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026

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