lectern
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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
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
Attorney Jeanine Pirro stepped to a lectern last month and evinced no doubt that her office would prove that a former Olympic canoeist, David Hearn, had vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
There were just two lecterns and two speakers at the news conference the leaders hosted, but two other parties hovered in the air.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
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 set for this Cambridge University institution is minimal — two tables, two chairs, two tabletop lecterns.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
There are beautiful examples of brass lecterns at Magdalene and Merton Colleges, Oxford, in most of our cathedrals, and many parish churches.
From Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field
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