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lectern

[lek-tern] / ˈlɛk tərn /
NOUN
reading desk
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Standing at the lectern and wearing a black t-shirt and jacket, White looked like he might be more comfortable in the octagon -- the ring used for UFC fights.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Zacharia appeared wholly unprepared when she took the lectern to address the press corps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Attorney Jeanine Pirro stepped to a lectern last month and evinced no doubt that her office would prove that a former Olympic canoeist, David Hearn, had vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Tobias Gough’s duty was simple: wheel out the heavy, bespoke wooden lectern and test the mic whenever a premier was about to resign or make their first speech to the nation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Mr. Turner stepped from behind the lectern and nodded to our teachers, who stood up and began to shoo us out of the auditorium.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Barabak: Starting out, the candidates behind their lecterns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

There were just two lecterns and two speakers at the news conference the leaders hosted, but two other parties hovered in the air.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

The two leaders gave opening remarks from lecterns on opposite sides of the stage.

From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2023

The set for this Cambridge University institution is minimal — two tables, two chairs, two tabletop lecterns.

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022

These lecterns are of oak, 6 feet 7 inches long, and 7 feet high, measured to the top of the ornamental finial.

From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark


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