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bully pulpit definition

bully pulpit

a position of power and influence used to aggressively promote one's own cause

Etymology: < phrase attributed by G. Putnam (1926) to Theodore Roosevelt, referring to the presidency as offering “such a bully [= fine] pulpit” for preaching: present use from later interpretation of bully in this phrase as bully, sense

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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