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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 Along those lines, the Court cautioned the national security concerns presented by TikTok are not generally applicable to social media platforms (such as Facebook, X or Snapchat etc.) and thus do not bear on other platforms’ data collection. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 17 Jan. 2025 Grier created content across various social platforms, including YouTube. Skyler Caruso, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025 Lionsgate is releasing this watchable if forgettable genre exercise to U.S. theaters as well as digital and On Demand platforms January 17th. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025 This is well understood by the scammers who lurk on the platform. Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for platform 
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Noun
  • Musk seemed surprised to be called up and walked over the podium after corralling his son X, who was wearing a red sweater.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 20 Jan. 2025
  • In all, six American Nordic skiers landed on the podium during the 2023-24 season, including Ogden, Schumacher and Diggins, who won the crystal globe for the overall title for a second time in the past four seasons.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • The forum is dominated by anonymous posts about would-be applicants complaining about waiting months to hear back from background investigators.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Traffic boomed, but cultural fracturing worsened as MAGA created its own information ecosystem via independent outlets and forums like Facebook.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Both the main stand they will be perched in and the ‘Tech End’ stand to their right have barely changed since that October 1, 1994, meeting.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The Republican National Committee told the justices to let the lower ruling stand, which found the dating requirement does not violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because its materiality provision applies only to registration forms, not actual ballots.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
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  • That venue has not been turned into n evacuation center as many other similar facilities have, so far.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
  • More than 200 guests were invited to the nuptials, yet Sarah showed a nearly empty venue after waiting for an hour and a half in a now-viral video recently posted on TikTok.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 20 Jan. 2025
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  • Photos in front of the pulpit captured West’s her childhood and youthful beauty as well as the elegant matron who would come to be called Mother Rose by both her family and many students at her alma mater, Sacramento High School.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The official record notes only that in February 1734, the town voted in the affirmative to call Robert Breck to the pulpit and, the following month, to form a committee to hire a new pastor.
    Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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  • The news was quickly confirmed by several other outlets, including NewsNation, CNN, Axios and Politico.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • There’s been some interest in buying the platform without its secret sauce, most notably from billionaire Frank McCourt, and multiple outlets reported this week that China was exploring a sale to Musk — but both of these outcomes feel like moonshots as the ban deadline draws near.
    Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • Forecasters and scientists say a perfect storm of weather conditions set the stage for the fires' explosive growth: hurricane-force winds, low humidity, and relentless drought conditions.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Her resignation in December, spurred by disagreements with Trudeau over economic policies, set the stage for his departure amid declining popularity.
    Amir Daftari, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Platform.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platform. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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