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lectern

[lek-tern] / ˈlɛk tərn /
NOUN
reading desk
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Tyson used to say that “you never lose until you give up,” and at that lectern, Garcia was nothing if not determined.

From Los Angeles Times

But when Green stood behind the lectern at the small church he had attended weekly since his release, he stifled a cry and turned away.

From Washington Post

Standing at a lectern at the school’s University Club, Davidson presented the agency’s plan to explore an auditing process.

From Washington Post

Reading her text from behind a lectern, Finley is in turn impassioned, mocking, beseeching, goofy, coy.

From New York Times

Washington selected Iowa State center Stephanie Soares, but she wasn’t a Mystic long enough to walk to the lectern for her first news conference as a professional.

From Washington Post