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a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information some readers don't appreciate that she sometimes uses her book blog as a soapbox for her political views

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Recent Examples of soapbox To mount the soapbox for a second, the choice of where to put entities in asset protection planning is one of the last considerations and not the first. Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025 These attempts to rein in the AfD has become a soapbox issue for AfD lawmakers, whose rousing cries that their freedom of speech is being restricted have been echoed by Musk and others. Alexander Smith, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2025 Somewhere behind me, or off in a secondary control room designated for the lower-level story producers, there were certainly people tracking Hannah’s soapbox tirade. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024 Jane Fonda is getting on her soapbox at the SAG Awards. Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soapbox
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Noun
  • And fellow ride-hailing platform GoTo, based in Indonesia, jumped 13 spots with sales of $1 billion.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune, 22 June 2025
  • His post on the social platform X was the first comment on the attacks by a ranking official.
    Sam Mednick, Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Their ideology isn’t confined to rallies or fringe forums—it’s embedded in policy agendas that echo past efforts to define citizenship narrowly and weaponize government systems to exclude.
    Eric K. Ward, Time, 19 June 2025
  • Hayward, who was in Shanghai this week for China’s annual financial Lujiazui forum, is traveling to Hong Kong later in the week for IPO discussions.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • The Trump administration said in court filings and at the hearing that the case was in the wrong venue and should be at the Court of Federal Claims.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
  • Wrigley Field has its share of idiots, as do most venues.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025

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“Soapbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soapbox. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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