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Recent Examples of soapbox
Everyone who does always comes away either with their mind blown or with a newfound soapbox about how convention breaking doesn’t always mean better.
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Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Allow me a brief moment to stand on a soapbox and make some important remarks about the mental health uses of generative AI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
Colin Farrell plays Oz’s big soapbox moment like a kabuki version of an undercover midnight drug or arms deal scene from Miami Vice — hamming it up and steely-eyed steaming it up in equal measure.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2024
Nearly everyone — from a powerful politician all the way down to that cousin — has a soapbox from which to offend and to be offended.
—Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Allow me a brief moment to stand on a soapbox and make some important remarks about the mental health uses of generative AI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
Colin Farrell plays Oz’s big soapbox moment like a kabuki version of an undercover midnight drug or arms deal scene from Miami Vice — hamming it up and steely-eyed steaming it up in equal measure.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2024
Nearly everyone — from a powerful politician all the way down to that cousin — has a soapbox from which to offend and to be offended.
—Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soapbox
Noun
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The platform has itself been called a cesspool, rife with hateful rhetoric and falsehoods.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2025
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Elon Musk says that his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is a better source of information than the traditional news media.—
John Hyatt,
Forbes,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The forum is dominated by anonymous posts about would-be applicants complaining about waiting months to hear back from background investigators.—
Libor Jany,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Traffic boomed, but cultural fracturing worsened as MAGA created its own information ecosystem via independent outlets and forums like Facebook.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The last Cup Series race here in 1971 was a victory for Bobby Allison, and since then, the venue has stood as a cornerstone of grassroots racing.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
1 Feb. 2025
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Goldberg said the decision to switch venues again was prompted in part by Sacramento’s scorching summer weather.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Soapbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soapbox. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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