lectured

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When Mr. Lai speaks of faith, you feel as if you’re being invited to partake in a noble mission, not lectured at, and Claire shares his gentle sincerity on the topic.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

“In case anyone is like, ‘I don’t want to be lectured at,’ or I don’t want to do all this work, it feels like you’re just having fun with friends,” Lim says.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Nov. 17, 2025

“It seems that it might be directly applicable,” he lectured Sauer.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2025

Rather than squabbling over sites, he lectured, the different factions needed to recognize that for the exposition to succeed, everyone had to work together, no matter which location the directors selected.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson