as in speaker
a person who makes usually formal public speeches
this evening's lecturer has an uncanny ability to make highly abstruse material understandable to lay audiences
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Recent Examples of lecturer
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Erica Boothby is a social psychologist and senior lecturer at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
—Maya Rossignac-Milon
erica Boothby, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Anderson had recently moved to the college town and was a first-year professor at Columbus State University’s College of the Arts and was a lecturer in the Theater and Dance Department.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Her mother, Lakshmi, is a molecular biologist at UC San Diego, and her father, Krish, a former aerospace engineer, is a lecturer at San Diego State University.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
Liam Mayes, a lecturer at Rice University’s program in media studies, thinks increasingly realistic deepfakes could have two key societal effects.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
There could be a few factors behind the lack of improvement in heart health markers seen in this study, says Matthew Jones, PhD, an exercise physiologist and senior lecturer at the School of Health Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Following the gym and a breakfast buffet, class is in session, with lecturer Natasha Bains delivering a psychology lesson called ‘Becoming YOU’ at the college the athletes attend.
—Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Paul McDonagh-Smith, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, framed the problem clearly.
—Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Joe Rao, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Erica Boothby is a social psychologist and senior lecturer at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
—Maya Rossignac-Milon
erica Boothby, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Anderson had recently moved to the college town and was a first-year professor at Columbus State University’s College of the Arts and was a lecturer in the Theater and Dance Department.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Her mother, Lakshmi, is a molecular biologist at UC San Diego, and her father, Krish, a former aerospace engineer, is a lecturer at San Diego State University.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
Liam Mayes, a lecturer at Rice University’s program in media studies, thinks increasingly realistic deepfakes could have two key societal effects.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
There could be a few factors behind the lack of improvement in heart health markers seen in this study, says Matthew Jones, PhD, an exercise physiologist and senior lecturer at the School of Health Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Following the gym and a breakfast buffet, class is in session, with lecturer Natasha Bains delivering a psychology lesson called ‘Becoming YOU’ at the college the athletes attend.
—Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Paul McDonagh-Smith, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, framed the problem clearly.
—Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lecturer
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In 1964, John Lennon bought a Phantom V, commissioned a custom psychedelic paint job and outfitted it with a record and cassette player and external speakers.—
Brett Berk,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Oct. 2025
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Carpenter also starred in sketches throughout the evening as a 12-year-old boy podcast host, a girlboss motivational speaker who suffers a head injury, and a singing washing machine.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
19 Oct. 2025
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From Trying to Be, which will be published next month by Fiction Collective Two. t the end of an earlier century, an orator named F. Matthias Alexander codified a way of understanding, or at least thinking about, the body.—
John Haskell,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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Archaeologists working in the Gulf of Naples have discovered the first physical evidence of what could be a bathhouse belonging to the famed Roman orator and politician Cicero.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Lecturer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lecturer. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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