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lecture

[lek-cher] / ˈlɛk tʃər /






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His decision to call his fellow actors together and give them a lecture about behaving more seriously failed to gain him popularity.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

And finally, as the 75-minute lecture ended, “What will become of Emma—and what will become of you?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

But, he says, “it’s done in a way that doesn’t feel like you’re going into the movie and you paid money to watch a lecture for an hour and 40 minutes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

He called all the brass to sit and listen to him lecture them about what a true military leader should be.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Just to make sure everything was still “educational,” he gave us a twenty-minute lecture about the science of snow before he set us free for the rest of the hour.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

The course has since expanded to a rotating cast of Harvard’s loftiest faculty members, each of whom lead two lectures and a weekly seminar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Ardern is taking up a post as Professor of Practice this month, the university said, offering guest lectures, masterclasses and mentoring.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

"I kept going back and forth to the GP... I went quite a number of times because it was affecting me going into lectures and things because I was exhausted."

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Apocalyptic eschatology has long been an interest of Thiel’s, who has made the Antichrist a central topic of secretive lectures he’s given behind closed doors.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Are you going to deliver lectures all the way home?” he asked presently.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Instead of feeling like her concerns were being heard, “I got lectured about why I shouldn’t pick that fight or I should just let that go.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Joanna Fabicon, who has lectured on contemporary children’s literature at UCLA, added that educators, librarians and publishers must all grapple with the allegations against Chávez and decide how to move forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

Yet away from the mainstream, Ceirion Dewar, who is a bishop in the small, more conservative, traditionalist Confessing Anglican Church, insists he will not be "lectured to" by these clergy.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

She was also officer of several technical societies and lectured on technical analysis around the world.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025

“Yeah. She watches me sleep. Plus she lectured me about bonding with Granddad and the littles. I have to connect with the family. Put on a smile.”

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

To Amis, the study of Old English at Oxford “carried the redoubted impediment of having Tolkien, incoherent and often inaudible, lecturing on it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Like many advisers, DeLarme understands that lecturing about the risks of stock picking can fall flat.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

If the novel stayed in that lecturing, gloomy zone, it’d be easy to lose patience with it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

She said she will "play it by ear" when it comes to lecturing in the coming years.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

But the visit also revived a desire in Galileo to return to Tuscany for the latter part of his life, preferably with a court appointment that would free him from any lecturing duties.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin


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