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Members of Congress jockeying for camera position along the center aisle as the beaming commander in chief makes his way to the rostrum.
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George Skelton, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
Video from a witness showed the sawfish along a bank of mangroves in shallow water, clearly distressed and thrashing its chainsaw snout, called a rostrum, above the surface.
—Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
One clerk puts on gloves to take a silver inkstand out of a drawer and place it onto the speaker’s rostrum.
—Ben Jacobs, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024
Some specimens also had a much steeper angle of their rostrum, the hard beak-like shape of the face.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
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George Skelton, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
Video from a witness showed the sawfish along a bank of mangroves in shallow water, clearly distressed and thrashing its chainsaw snout, called a rostrum, above the surface.
—Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
One clerk puts on gloves to take a silver inkstand out of a drawer and place it onto the speaker’s rostrum.
—Ben Jacobs, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024
Some specimens also had a much steeper angle of their rostrum, the hard beak-like shape of the face.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
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“Rostrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rostrum. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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