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 In World Cup competition, Gu has made the podium in 89% of her starts. Michelle Bruton, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 Before Newsom spoke, Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, came to the podium and noted the governor has proposed more money for literacy and math coaches to work with students. Dave Mason, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025 While Tomac looks to return to the Thunder Valley podium, John is the grand marshal of Saturday’s event. Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 6 June 2025 Hamilton started the race in P5, while his teammate Charles Leclerc, who started seventh on the grid, secured a podium finish in third. Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for podium
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Noun
  • Founded in 2017, AIF continues to fill a unique role in the U.S. by providing a world-class platform for animated cinema, celebrating the medium’s full artistic potential.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 9 June 2025
  • Legacy media companies have struggled to maintain their foothold in recent years as viewers shift to alternative platforms for news and entertainment.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Shohei Ohtani is there as well, in the late stages of Tommy John surgery rehab that could be completed just after the All Star break.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • The band went on stage at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, just after Janis Joplin and just before The Who.
    Mark Osborne, ABC News, 9 June 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
  • The sponsors include the Ultimate Fighting Championship whose founder, Dana White, joined the president at the reviewing stand.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
  • Up above, the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team descended from overcast skies toward the reviewing stand.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
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  • 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
  • Van Der Mark enjoys a fellow conservative majority on the Huntington Beach City Council dais — but in Sacramento, Democrats lead the legislature and executive branch.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 23 May 2025
  • After an hour of public comment and lengthy discussion on the dais, Gastonia City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to make a local Juneteenth festival a city event — helping the organizers avoid thousands in fees prompted by a controversial city policy.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Why, look about you: the tribune, the press, intelligence, speech, thought, all that was liberty, has vanished.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • Trump and comparable tribunes of national greatness are now setting the global agenda.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Kevin Mazur/Getty Images June 8, 2025: Deux Moi shares photos of Eilish and Nat Wolff kissing and taking selfies on a balcony in Italy.
    Glamour, Glamour, 8 June 2025
  • The longtime friend and former co-worker of Combs' ex-girlfriend Ventura testified that Combs dangled her from a 17th-floor balcony and threw her into a coffee table in a moment of unprovoked rage.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 June 2025

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“Podium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/podium. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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