tribunes

noun

plural of tribune
as in podiums
a level usually raised surface addressed the vast crowd from the tribune

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Recent Examples of tribunes Le Monde published two different tribunes, on Monday and Tuesday, defending Lapid. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 June 2026 As the tribunes, Bernardo De Paula’s Brutus and Daniel DeYoung’s Sicinius scheme and rabble-rouse with manipulative glee. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tribunes
  1. podiums
  2. pulpits
  3. platforms
Noun
  • Sale items include classroom furniture such as desks, chairs, bookshelves, tables and podiums, the post says.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 June 2026
  • The e-gates will use real-time biometric verification to match CLEAR+ members' face with their ID, allowing passengers to verify their identity in under five seconds and skip documentation checks at Transportation Security Administration podiums and proceed directly to physical screening.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 9 June 2026
Definition of podiums
Noun
  • Politicians routinely invoke faith on the campaign trail, speak from pulpits and frame policy debates in moral terms.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • From church pulpits to community gatherings, the policy U-turn was widely viewed as a betrayal of Black American shoppers who launched boycotts.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Definition of pulpits
Noun
  • The transactions facilitated on these platforms occur entirely independently of FIFA’s official ticketing platform.
    — Lily Wright, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53359, allows guest virtual machines—such as those used in cloud platforms to isolate one user’s instance from the host OS and other user instances—to break out of that container.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026
Definition of platforms

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“Tribunes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tribunes. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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