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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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Father Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari was standing at the altar of Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro Church in Guayaquil on Saturday when the large wooden crucifix behind him suddenly fell forward and struck him.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
On Friday, the Vatican released the first images of Leo since his surgery, showing him in green vestments standing at an altar in the hospital chapel.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

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Infantino accepts the support Infantino took the podium following Sheikh Salman and kept it light.

— Stephen Wade, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
In a career that stretched from the mid-1980s to the early 2010s, Brundle won the 1988 World Sportscar Championship, the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1990, and finished on the podium nine times in Formula 1.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026

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