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lectern

[lek-tern] / ˈlɛk tərn /
NOUN
reading desk
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Zacharia appeared wholly unprepared when she took the lectern to address the press corps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

After 72 particularly miserable hours for his football program, Lincoln Riley took his place behind a lectern Tuesday and tried to assure that things at USC weren’t as bad as they looked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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

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

After that, Blanca just held my hand and her eyes returned to the figure standing alone behind a lectern on the platform.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

Vance and Walz cordially acknowledged one another before taking up their places behind their respective lecterns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

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

From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2023

Those aren't ideas parties like to put on the front of leaflets, lecterns or Facebook ads.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022

In the next century this room was assigned to teaching purposes, and the lecterns were either removed or destroyed.

From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark


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