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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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Noun

On their wedding day, their paramotors were with them at the altar.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Bloys may well have to sacrifice some of his own team on the altar of fiscal responsibility, or could decide that there are execs at the current Paramount who might be better suited to push his supersize division forward.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

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Before the speaker’s podium stood a vase filled with white roses; to the right, a large photograph of the deceased.

— Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
While Adebayo might be overshadowed by Antetokounmpo at the podium, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra expects Antetokounmpo to help bring more attention to Adebayo’s sometimes overlooked and underappreciated two-way skill set this season.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026

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