Thesaurus results for LECTURER

lecturer

noun

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 During the period, he's been a lecturer at the Stanford School of Business and has served on various boards of directors. —

Jeff Cox, CNBC, 13 May 2026 In light of her public embarrassment, her author father, Greg, accepts a position as a visiting lecturer on campus to be close to his daughter in her time of need. —

Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 12 May 2026 Chris Bailey is an author and lecturer who explores the science behind living a more productive and intentional life. —

Big Think, 8 May 2026 As climate change delays the first winter frosts across much of North America, summer ragweed also keeps flowering longer, extending the latter part of pollen season into the fall, said David Wees, a faculty lecturer in horticulture at McGill University in Montreal. —

Keerti Gopal, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026 Twenty years ago, during my first year as a geoscience undergraduate, a lecturer told me that predicting when and where the next major eruption would take place was a pipe dream — the implication being that volcanoes are far too idiosyncratic and mercurial to have much in common with one another. —

Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026 Joseph Steinberg, a cybersecurity expert and lecturer at Columbia University, uses the Canvas program which was hacked. —

Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 8 May 2026 Damon Linker, a senior lecturer in the political science department at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a post on X that his students had been relying on Canvas to access every reading from the semester and all of his lecture slides before their Monday final exams. —

Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2026 Damon Linker, a senior lecturer in the political science department at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a post on the social media platform X that his students had been relying on Canvas to access every reading from the semester and all of his lecture slides before their Monday final exams. —

ABC News, 7 May 2026

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The Religion News Service reports the speakers are almost entirely conservative Christians, a key part of the president’s political base.

— Joseph Bonasia, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 May 2026
To overcome it, most people are able to focus on a single speaker's voice, which cues the brain to amplify that sound and turn down the rest.

— Jon Hamilton, NPR, 14 May 2026