lectured

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Instead of feeling like her concerns were being heard, “I got lectured about why I shouldn’t pick that fight or I should just let that go.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

“In case anyone is like, ‘I don’t want to be lectured at,’ or I don’t want to do all this work, it feels like you’re just having fun with friends,” Lim says.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 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

Rather than squabbling over sites, he lectured, the different factions needed to recognize that for the exposition to succeed, everyone had to work together, no matter which location the directors selected.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson