pulpit
noun
pul·pit
ˈpu̇l-ˌpit 
ˈpəl-,
-pət
1
: an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service
2
a
: the preaching profession
b
: a preaching position
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Pastor Lorenzo Jones stood in a tub of water in his white pulpit gown.
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Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
Their cross-racial sisterhood expanded the civil rights imagination beyond male pulpits and courtrooms.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
This was their mass, and Jalen Brunson led it from his hardwood pulpit.
—Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 22 May 2025
That year, the American political apparatus stepped to the pulpit to denigrate the activists: Tom Cotton, Mike Johnson, Joe Biden, Eric Adams.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
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Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
Their cross-racial sisterhood expanded the civil rights imagination beyond male pulpits and courtrooms.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
This was their mass, and Jalen Brunson led it from his hardwood pulpit.
—Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 22 May 2025
That year, the American political apparatus stepped to the pulpit to denigrate the activists: Tom Cotton, Mike Johnson, Joe Biden, Eric Adams.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
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“Pulpit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pulpit. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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pulpit
noun
pul·pit
ˈpu̇l-ˌpit
also ˈpəl-,
-pət
1
: a raised platform or high desk used in preaching or leading a worship service
2
: the preaching profession
3
: a job as a preacher
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