soapboxes

noun

plural of soapbox
as in platforms
a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information some readers don't appreciate that she sometimes uses her book blog as a soapbox for her political views

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Recent Examples of soapboxes What’s needed now is the will to step off our soapboxes and into the weeds of civic life. — Big Think, 12 Nov. 2025 European heads-of-state may get on their soapboxes daily and talk about the need to defend Ukraine lest a Russian victory emboldens Moscow to attack NATO territory, their Ukraine policy is built on reducing risk. — Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soapboxes
  1. platforms
  2. forums
  3. venues
Noun
  • At least that’s what many educational AI platforms are touting.
    — Beth Collums, AJC.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The company expects partners to embed the technology into existing and future autonomous platforms.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of platforms
Noun
  • And many—in comments sections and gossip forums and group chats and Substack blogs, conversations with their waxer and at happy hour—are trying.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2026
  • On some looksmaxxing forums, men coach each other on how to administer filler on themselves, with materials obtained on the black or gray market.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of forums
Noun
  • Dan Kennedy started at McSweeney’s in 2000 as well as the downtown New York storytelling scene at popular venues like The Moth, going on to perform as a host and storyteller for 20 years onstage and as longtime host of The Moth Podcast.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 6 Aug. 2026
  • At the end of the day, both conferences feature great fanbases, historic, iconic venues, outstanding crowd atmospheres and elite, blue blood programs.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of venues

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