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a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information some readers don't appreciate that she sometimes uses her book blog as a soapbox for her political views

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Recent Examples of soapbox Musk now owns the social media giant, renamed X and repurposed as his personal soapbox. Rob Picheta, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025 Advertisement Your inbox, their soapbox As long as there’s been media, there’s been some form of media disintermediation — the process of bypassing traditional gatekeepers (such as publishers, broadcasters, or editors) to directly reach an audience. Catherine Baab-Muguira, Quartz, 9 Jan. 2025 The vegetarianism, that is, not the ethical soapbox speeches. David G. Allan, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024 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. Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for soapbox
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Noun
  • The Shein platform boasts more than 150 million users.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Like the Ford Explorer, the Capri sits on the Volkswagen MEB platform that underpins the ID.4.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Create Feedback Mechanisms and Involve Teams in Decisions Establish dedicated channels for honest feedback, such as office hours, public communication forums, and anonymous feedback tools.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Data brokers aside, a lot of us voluntarily give up personal information on all sorts of forms, forums, blogs and social media accounts.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The majority of the bayside Shelter Island venue’s 2025 concerts have ticket prices between $37.50 and $70.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
  • This also marks a return to the Yuengling Center, a venue with rich WWE history, including the 1995 Royal Rumble and the WWE Thunderdome.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025

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“Soapbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soapbox. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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