lectern
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Asked about the lawsuit during questioning, Turner said, “We’re working on that right now,” then shifted to a brown lunch bag pulled from the lectern from which he extracted several items.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
I hear, for instance, that he may not bother with a lectern for his first speech as prime minister, outside 10 Downing Street, on Monday.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 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
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
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
There are lecterns on each level connected by a staircase with ornate details which were all crafted by hand.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2022
The set for this Cambridge University institution is minimal — two tables, two chairs, two tabletop lecterns.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
In the next century this room was assigned to teaching purposes, and the lecterns were either removed or destroyed.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
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