lecturers

plural of lecturer
as in speakers
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 lecturers The union, representing about 2,700 lecturers, clinicians and librarians, won a June election with roughly 70% support, but USC has appealed to the National Labor Relations Board to toss the result. Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 After more than a year of negotiations, the California Faculty Association — which represents about 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches — declared impasse in July. Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026 But lecturers increasingly used images to bring new groups of people into science. Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 16 July 2026 Since the letter’s publication, more than 1,400 professors and lecturers have co-signed it. Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026 Unlike at the Center, a solidly bipartisan roster of lecturers speaks to students at the Harvard institute. Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 30 May 2026 Guest lecturers were competent, discussing everything from pirates in the Caribbean to the Panama Canal. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026 Underpaid lecturers huddled closer to their space heaters, submerging themselves deeper in Aramaic love poetry to stave off thoughts of the damp. Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026 Some hosted visiting lecturers or troupes putting on plays. Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
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Noun
  • Both speakers pointed to energy as today’s biggest geopolitical stress point.
    Angelica Ang, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The monitor also has five 5-watt speakers with spatial audio technology, making the audio sound more immersive.
    George Yang, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026
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  • Jublin was fascinated by great orators—especially political heavyweights like former French president Jacques Chirac.
    Olivier Bouchara, Vanity Fair, 24 July 2026
  • Kinnock was among his generation’s greatest political orators—to the point that Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, plagiarized some of his most effective lines.
    James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026

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“Lecturers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lecturers. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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