as in podium
a level usually raised surface stood on a rostrum to address the huge crowd

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Recent Examples of rostrum Members of Congress jockeying for camera position along the center aisle as the beaming commander in chief makes his way to the rostrum. George Skelton, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024 Video from a witness showed the sawfish along a bank of mangroves in shallow water, clearly distressed and thrashing its chainsaw snout, called a rostrum, above the surface. Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024 One clerk puts on gloves to take a silver inkstand out of a drawer and place it onto the speaker’s rostrum. Ben Jacobs, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024 Some specimens also had a much steeper angle of their rostrum, the hard beak-like shape of the face. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for rostrum 

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“Rostrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rostrum. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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