as in podium
a level usually raised surface the speaker took his place at the front of the dais

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Recent Examples of dais Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg would sit on the dais as Trump got sworn in; Musk was reportedly planning to turn a small boutique hotel near Ivanka Trump’s house into a private club, his own mini Mar-a-Lago. Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 As he was sworn in, CEOs of Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, OpenAI and TikTok, as well as top benefactor Elon Musk, were right behind him on the dais, in more privileged seats than Trump’s cabinet nominees. Megan Poinski, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 During the inauguration ceremony, tech billionaires—including Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Apple CEO Tim Cook—sat directly behind Trump’s family on the dais. Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2025 Trump was joined by a slew of tech leaders on the dais at his inauguration Monday, including Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai. Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for dais 

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“Dais.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dais. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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