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
  • President Donald Trump announced the nomination on his social media platform late Wednesday, praising Artau for his career as an appellate judge since 2020, a circuit court judge between 2014 and 2020, and previously as general counsel to the South Florida Water Management District.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 May 2025
  • As live sports programming proliferates on TV, every company is also thinking about that second screen, from sports betting companies to social platforms to streaming services themselves with offerings like alternate camera views.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • The upper stages of both Falcons are expendable, but SpaceX has gotten very good at churning out that complicated piece of hardware.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 29 May 2025
  • The allegations stem from when Tate was living in England from 2013 to 2015, which was during the early stages of launching an adult webcam business.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 29 May 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
  • The pair are likely to spar on the dais should Regalado be elected.
    Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • The council remains split 3-3 over who should replace her on the dais during her temporary mayoral tenure.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 14 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
  • Unique Loom Outdoor Runner Rug Enhance your narrow balcony, porch, or deck with this runner that can complement multiple types of décor thanks to its minimalist design.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 29 May 2025
  • The Emergence section, which will occupy the Grand Palais’s interior balconies, will host sixteen exhibitors, half of whom are new to the fair.
    News Desk, Artforum, 28 May 2025

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“Podium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/podium. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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