Thesaurus results for LECTURER

lecturer

noun

Definition of lecturer

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 Academic titleholders at Cornell -- including professors, senior lecturers, librarians, archivists and others -- are eligible to be senators, who serve three-year terms. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 After more than a year of negotiations and a proposal from the CSU to increase salaries by 3%, the California Faculty Association — which represents about 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches — declared impasse in July. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Elizabeth Shackelford is a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune and a lecturer with the Dickey Center at Dartmouth College. — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026 Investigators will likely explore the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder first, Marco Chan, a senior lecturer in aviation operations at London’s Kingston University, told CNN. — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026 In June, about 70% of voting non-tenure-track faculty approved unionizing under United Faculty-UAW, which seeks to represent roughly 2,700 USC lecturers, researchers, clinicians, librarians and pharmacists. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026 Continue reading … CAMPUS FALLOUT — Ethnic studies lecturer ousted for telling student to 'get the f--- out' on TikTok. — FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 More Sustainability Stories from Vogue Business Bella Webb is the sustainability editor at Vogue Business and an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins. — Bella Webb, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026 Later, Zula became a lecturer in English at the University of Warsaw. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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The august speakers included an Oxford don, a Harvard strategy professor, a New York Times reporter, and … me, the lone representative for the young and technologically adept, unencumbered by conventional wisdom.

— Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Speakers urge early votes A series of speakers on stage pushed a message to get out the vote ahead of the midterm elections in November.

— Dominick Williams, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of speaker

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Being a competent, eloquent orator does not mean that you’re trusted.

— Jamil Wyne, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
This meant moving outside of the traditional tableau of White House photojournalism—an orator on a pedestal—to show members of the press in postures of alertness or repose.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026

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