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Recent Examples of dais
The room was silent, save for the heavy, mechanized breathing of the huge man in black armor standing to one side of the throne dais.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 10 Nov. 2025
Commissioner Stephen Cushman asked from the dais.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
In May, Ortiz and a few of his colleagues on the dais introduced the concept of a smoke shop ban following the release of the 2025 Latino Health Assessment report, which found that Latinos faced more dire health outcomes than their counterparts.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
While Aurora City Council races are nominally nonpartisan, there’s no escaping the politics of the day as hot-button issues like crime, immigration and police conduct insert themselves, often loudly, into discussions on the dais — and among those sitting in the council chamber audience.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
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podium
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Though that part of the bit didn't quite land, Storrie followed Williams out to the podium, shaking profusely from nerves of attending their first Globes.—
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Prepare to watch her climb podiums for the next two months straight.—
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“Dais.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dais. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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