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as in podium
a level usually raised surface you'll have to stand up there on the platform for your speech

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as in forum
a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information for years the publisher has used his newspaper as a platform for his extreme political conservatism

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Recent Examples of platform As live sports programming proliferates on TV, every company is also thinking about that second screen, from sports betting companies to social platforms to streaming services themselves with offerings like alternate camera views. Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025 President Donald Trump announced the nomination on his social media platform late Wednesday, praising Artau for his career as an appellate judge since 2020, a circuit court judge between 2014 and 2020, and previously as general counsel to the South Florida Water Management District. Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 May 2025 To achieve that, the team actively seeks out partnerships with streaming services that share its commitment to creating a platform where talent is celebrated. Malana Vantyle, USA Today, 17 May 2025 To be sure, tax cuts and muscular national defense and a gimlet eye on other programs had been components of Republican platforms for generations. Ron Elving, NPR, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for platform
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  • Mixed Senior Open Doubles: Top seeds Julie Johnson & Steve Deakin returned to the podium together and gave both players the double senior gold for the weekend.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Falcon boys swimmers had multiple podium finishes, including sophomores Aidan Copeland and Hamilton Gates who tied for the 100-yard freestyle title with a time of 45.72.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
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  • In 2018, the forum’s Working Party on Braking and Running Gear morphed into the Groupe de Rapporteurs pour les Véhicules Autonomes (GRVA), a sub-committee in charge of AV rules.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • The woman shared on the U.K. community forum Mumsnet that a ping on her husband’s phone woke them up — and the messenger was his colleague.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 25 May 2025
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  • There’s a definite purity-politics flavor to any suggestion that people should take a moral stand and leave a social network, but also a pretty airtight case to be made for boycotting it.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025
  • The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) recently took a public stand on government actions affecting research funding and healthcare access.
    Lynn Godfrey, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
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  • The scene, staged at Carnegie Hall, a venue built by one of America’s great 19th century philanthropists, paid tribute to a long tradition of American giving, while pointing to new ways of thinking that are shaping the 21st century.
    Sam Jacobs, Time, 20 May 2025
  • The main tour makes way for MLP for a bit , then return in Mid-June for the Orange County Cup and favorite venue Life Time San Clemente.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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  • This was their mass, and Jalen Brunson led it from his hardwood pulpit.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • That year, the American political apparatus stepped to the pulpit to denigrate the activists: Tom Cotton, Mike Johnson, Joe Biden, Eric Adams.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
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  • Rima served as the Best Bets editor at New York Magazine for seven years, and writes primarily about lifestyle pursuits (design, art, culture and travel) for top international outlets including The New York Times, Elle and Elle Décor, Galerie, HTSI and the The Wall Street Journal, amongst others.
    Rima Suqi, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Avoid entering basements or rooms where electrical outlets or cords are submerged in water.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 May 2025
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  • Over four decades, the theater continues to bring that sense of joy on its three stages: the Vivian Beaumont, the Mitzi E. Newhouse, and its newest stage, the Claire Tow.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • These strains independently evolved similar reductions in the pla gene during the later stages of the first and second plague pandemics and in three samples from the third pandemic that were uncovered in present day Vietnam.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 May 2025

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“Platform.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platform. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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