Thesaurus results for LECTURERS

lecturers

noun

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 California Faculty Association, which represents nearly 30,000 professors, lecturers, counselors and librarians at the CSU, also opposed the bills. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 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 Music 101 featuring Michael Gerdes, director of orchestras at San Diego State University and guest lecturers. — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026

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The Austin Convention Center, which always held the majority of the festival’s panels and speakers, closed for redevelopment in late 2025.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2026
The French Open, as English speakers tend to call it, takes place during a traditionally splendid time of the year, when Parisians delight in the temperate air.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 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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