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- noun Plural form of
lectern .
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Anticipation ran higher than Charlie Sheen on New Year's Eve that a hockey match would break out and the blood thirsty audience was not going to be satisfied until lecterns dripped with copious spillage.
Will Durst: Red Meat Slam Dance Will Durst 2011
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But pulpits, lecterns, bimas and other sacred forums should not be sites from which stump speeches are delivered and partisan politics preached.
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy: The Dangerous Mix Of Religion And Politics Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy 2011
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They show the ‘suffering’ in my hands in transit to desks, reading chairs, lecterns, not to mention the wear and tear of loaning them, passing them on to the hands of others.
william saroyan | part II « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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Anticipation ran higher than Charlie Sheen on New Year's Eve that a hockey match would break out and the blood thirsty audience was not going to be satisfied until lecterns dripped with copious spillage.
Will Durst: Red Meat Slam Dance Will Durst 2011
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As the two candidates stood at their lecterns waiting for the debate to go live, Conway kept trying to catch Paul's eye, presumably to exchange greetings.
Midterm elections live blog - Monday 18 October Richard Adams 2010
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They show the ‘suffering’ in my hands in transit to desks, reading chairs, lecterns, not to mention the wear and tear of loaning them, passing them on to the hands of others.
January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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Scene of the weekStanding at their lecterns on a stage with a backdrop like a computer screen saver, the three party leaders in The First Election Debate (ITV1) resembled nothing so much as contestants in a special political version of The Weakest Link.
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Rather than major celebrities standing formally at lecterns, Scotland Debates had four men few Scots had heard of sloping casually on uncomfortable chairs.
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Viewers of TV political shows know that the image of two lecterns side by side in the Downing Street garden means only one thing: a press conference between the British PM and a foreign leader.
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Not for the reasons politicians championed from behind lecterns hundreds of miles away.
Why we fight Thomas Daly 2010
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