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lectern

[lek-tern] / ˈlɛk tərn /
NOUN
reading desk
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Asked about the lawsuit during questioning, Turner said, “We’re working on that right now,” then shifted to a brown lunch bag pulled from the lectern from which he extracted several items.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 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

But perhaps conscious that "lectern moments" have become a symbol of the UK's political instability in recent years, Burnham broke with recent tradition and made the address without notes or a podium.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

So when Torres took the lectern in Garden Grove, he wasn’t just there as an elected official.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

I checked everywhere: under the chairs, around the lectern I’d stood behind while delivering my eulogy, under the treat table, on the bulletin board packed with Sunday school kids’ drawings of God’s love.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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 boxy dark blue and dark paneled lecterns — there are many — are a symbol of the modern presidency.

From Seattle Times Oct. 11, 2022

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

From New York Times Oct. 2, 2022

But the statement that the grades are numbered "from the bottom and proceed upwards" can hardly be reconciled with any arrangement of lecterns.

From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark




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