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[lek-cher] / ˈlɛk tʃər /






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Kubrick didn’t lecture us or seek to comfort or improve us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The building also houses the John Wolfson Rare Book Room, a lecture theatre, the Weston Foyer exhibition space and a climate-controlled store for the archive.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

If in doubt about stairs, older people should wait for a friend or family member, but it’s also easier to lecture people after the fact.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Next month, the lecture will host Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was imprisoned in Russia for 16 months before his release in a prisoner exchange in August 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

In fact, it was the lecture by Mrs. Worthington that had prompted Penelope’s interest in ferns to begin with.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Here “The Storytellers” betrays its origins as a course of lectures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Apocalyptic eschatology has long been an interest of Thiel’s, who has made the Antichrist a central topic of secretive lectures he’s given behind closed doors.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

The profe has had to update his lectures about the forced removal of upward of a million Mexican Americans south of the border during the Great Depression.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

An out-of work actor gets a new role - being locked in a black bag during psychology lectures for an entire term as a professor's experiment.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

I guess it is no surprise that he drowses during lectures.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Once, in anthropology class, my professor lectured on an insular island tribe that cackled whenever someone got hurt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

“Their song has a very pro-European message,” said Vuletic, who has lectured widely on the contest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Yet away from the mainstream, Ceirion Dewar, who is a bishop in the small, more conservative, traditionalist Confessing Anglican Church, insists he will not be "lectured to" by these clergy.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

She was also officer of several technical societies and lectured on technical analysis around the world.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025

He visited them nearly every day, played games with them, lectured to them on German history, played their piano, gave them lessons in conversational German.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Over the years he instead appeared in Dyson commercials as the company’s sole spokesman, taking the tone of a lecturing physics professor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Like many advisers, DeLarme understands that lecturing about the risks of stock picking can fall flat.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

However, some social media users saw this as exactly the kind of colonial lecturing he said that France had moved away from, while others argued he was within his rights.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

It wasn’t just coaches lecturing, but also players speaking up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

I’ve had more than enough lecturing for the moment.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott


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