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as in podium
a level usually raised surface you'll have to stand up there on the platform for your speech

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as in forum
a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information for years the publisher has used his newspaper as a platform for his extreme political conservatism

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Recent Examples of platform David Swanson | Reuters Baidu has struck a partnership with Uber to deploy its autonomous cars on the ride-hailing giant's platform outside the U.S. and mainland China. Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 15 July 2025 With millions of followers across Instagram, TikTok and Substack, the platform is positioned towards helping young people better understand the news, with regular free newsletters and podcasts. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 15 July 2025 In 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana, Missouri and others did not have the legal right to sue the Biden administration over complaints that social media platforms censored conservative viewpoints. Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 July 2025 The studio will continue exploring how these platforms and blockchain technology can reshape anime financing, production and consumption. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for platform
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Noun
  • The German driver made the admission after securing his first podium finish in F1 at the British Grand Prix.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025
  • After more than an hour of superlatives, Di Bona took the podium to express his overwhelming gratitude and appreciation.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 12 July 2025
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  • What began as an experimental digital currency traded on obscure forums has, fifteen years later, matured into a global asset at the center of Washington policy, Wall Street portfolios, and mortgage approvals.
    Becca Bratcher, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • Griffin, Davis and their sons attended one of several forums CPS hosted at high schools around the city in recent weeks to hear stakeholders’ ideas on how to solve the deficit.
    Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
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  • Chris Figueroa, who ran his food stand Nicky's Barbecue for eight months, promises to bring meat preparations from Texas, St. Louis and Latin American, the latter an ode to Figueroa's Peruvian background.
    Bahar Anooshahr, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
  • British class hysterics aside, the furor over the Yellow Bittern may best be understood as an exercise in the political limits of self-care, individual action, and the iconoclastic stand.
    Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
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  • The club where the incident occurred, the Vermont, is a 13,000-square-foot live music venue that can hold around 1,200 people.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • In a normal venue with a normal set of overpriced tickets, that would have been the end of the night.
    Liz Riggs, People.com, 19 July 2025
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  • Many who spoke with the Herald pointed to recent polling that shows that most Americans want to leave politics out of the pulpit.
    Lauren Costantino Updated July 20, Miami Herald, 20 July 2025
  • Both political parties have tested the line in trying to harness the power of the pulpit, with many Republicans wooing evangelical leaders while Democrats often try to curry favor with Black churches.
    Tiffany Li, ABC News, 15 July 2025
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  • The outlet reported on July 11 that nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance hotline went unanswered two days after the flooding, as search and rescue efforts continued.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 14 July 2025
  • Factor in a four-hour charging time via a conventional 110-volt outlet, and users would be hard-pressed to need much more in a week’s worth of commuting, grocery and errand runs, and so on.
    Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
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  • Crushed and humiliated, Rumi flees the stage and confronts her adoptive mother, Celine (Yunjin Kim), begging for an end to it all.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 15 July 2025
  • After playing a round Saturday (July 12) at the American Century Championship, Romano hit the stage with a live band and backup vocalists in a New York Jets T-shirt and backward cap.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 15 July 2025

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