lectern
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And all three stood at the lectern in Downing Street within four years of each other.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
So when Torres took the lectern in Garden Grove, he wasn’t just there as an elected official.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
That elicited plenty of interjections from the degree-holders below his lectern, to whom Borchetta responded, “Deal with it.”
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
While on the witness stand, Musk focused mostly on the jury and the attorneys at the lectern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Billy stopped skating, found himself at a lectern in a Chinese restaurant in Ilium, New York, on an early afternoon in the autumn of 1957.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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 several miniatures lecterns of very curious design are often depicted; some of them stood on a cupboard or cupboards wherein books were stowed away.
From Old English Libraries by Savage, Ernest Albert
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