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Recent Examples of rostrum
This year, once again, the U.N. General Assembly high-level debate will be dominated by men speaking at the rostrum.
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Stéphanie Fillion, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Then late last week, videos posted on YouTube looked showed a large sawfish swinging its rostrum out of the water in the Boynton Inlet, looking eerily similar to images from the Keys.
—Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2024
Two weeks ago, auctioneer Phyllis Kao, in a tailored gray jacket and hair pinned in a black swirl at her forehead, leaned with tensile agility over the rostrum.
—thehustle.co, 2 Aug. 2024
The catcher is near the whale’s rostrum–near its beak, snout, and vertebrae.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
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Stéphanie Fillion, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Then late last week, videos posted on YouTube looked showed a large sawfish swinging its rostrum out of the water in the Boynton Inlet, looking eerily similar to images from the Keys.
—Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2024
Two weeks ago, auctioneer Phyllis Kao, in a tailored gray jacket and hair pinned in a black swirl at her forehead, leaned with tensile agility over the rostrum.
—thehustle.co, 2 Aug. 2024
The catcher is near the whale’s rostrum–near its beak, snout, and vertebrae.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rostrum
Noun
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Golden, at 21 years old and donning a radiant gold-and-black suit, grabbed the microphone on the podium in front of a crowd later announced as 205,000 people.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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His brother Deion Sanders Jr. was also in attendance as the family collectively awaited to hear their surname called from the podium.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Rostrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rostrum. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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