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pulpit

noun

Definition of pulpit

as in altar

a raised flat surface where a priest or minister stands when leading a worship service The pastor ascended the pulpit.

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Recent Examples of pulpit The church plans to continue upholding core Baptist principles, including congregational autonomy free from a hierarchy, a free pulpit and religious freedom, Hudson said. — Zaire Breedlove, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026 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 The church’s parklike campus took up an entire block on Fifth Avenue, and its high pulpit was occupied by Harry Emerson Fosdick, a bespectacled liberal Baptist minister. — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026 Candice and Timothy show Brittany how ‘church hurt’ stretches out from the pulpit and into cultural norms around gender, sexuality, acceptance. — Brittany Luse, NPR, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for pulpit

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Automatic Seafood & Oysters is an altar to Gulf seafood from the accomplished chef Adam Evans and designer Suzanne Humphries.

— Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
In Labor of Light (2016), an assemblage of technologies comes together as a kind of altar to the history of video production.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

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The briefing room where press secretaries stand behind the podium and take questions from reporters is named after Brady.

— Chandelis Duster, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026
But in an edited video put out by the White House that showed her march to the podium, set to pickup-truck-commercial music, Zacharia appeared visibly fearful.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026

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