lectern
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Football coaches loathe looking backward, especially during the season, but before leaving the lectern, McVay made an exception in humorously referring to his team’s ultra-brief stay in Australia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
By now, both men have teams of prestigious lawyers who will represent them at the Supreme Court lectern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Vance is due to appear behind the lectern on Thursday afternoon to deliver the first White House press briefing since the departure of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
With Lander, he would take the lectern at next month’s gathering to decide their future.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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We open with the candidates walking out and taking their place behind their lecterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
The two leaders gave opening remarks from lecterns on opposite sides of the stage.
From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2023
The custom blue and wood-paneled lectern was bought using a state credit card in June for $19,029.25, significantly higher than prices listed online for other lecterns.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Those aren't ideas parties like to put on the front of leaflets, lecterns or Facebook ads.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2023
Canon Manning was a well-known authority on church plate, and among other subjects upon which he wrote were church architecture, lecterns, fonts, heraldry, seals, coins, mediæval patens, and antiquarians objects of almost every kind. 13.—Mr.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
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