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lecturer

[lek-cher-er] / ˈlɛk tʃər ər /
NOUN
teacher
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"I don't think she necessarily has to get rid of him," said Marta Lorimer, lecturer in politics at Cardiff University.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

"Defectors are the main source of information about the North," said Fyodor Tertitsky, lecturer at Seoul's Korea University, noting both South Korean intelligence and researchers interrogate them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The rebranding is "misleading", as super intelligence typically refers to a system that has the ability to improve by itself, said digital ethics lecturer Simon Coghlan from The University of Melbourne.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

“What matters for refiners is the delivered cost of the crude, and that includes freight,” said Adi Imsirovic, a former energy trader, and lecturer at the University of Oxford.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The explosion transformed him from lecturer to observer.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Talks at the conciliation service Acas broke down earlier this month and lecturers went on strike last week.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The USC union, United Faculty-UAW, represents roughly 2,700 non-tenure-track faculty across more than 20 schools and the USC libraries, including lecturers, researchers, clinicians, librarians and pharmacists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

“Sometimes we have expert lecturers come. … We just mishmash everything together until it makes sense. Or if it doesn’t make sense, that’s fine too.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

A 22-year-old Kabul University student said lecturers "have warned us... that if we don't have a proper Islamic appearance, which includes beards and head covering, they will deduct our marks".

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

“Very nutritious. One of our lecturers in agriculture sells it.”

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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