lecture
noun
a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject.
have lectured
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present perfectof lecture.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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If you have lectured, punished or shamed her, I would stop.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
Would he have lectured everyone celebrating a woman’s right to vote?
From Washington Times ● Jul. 4, 2022
Agents have lectured at seminars, briefed administrators in campus meetings and distributed pamphlets with cautionary tales of trade secret theft.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2019
Hermann and his colleagues have lectured about their experiences weathering these attacks, and have developed a campaign to encourage doctors not to shy away from the internet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2019
It might be much enlarged by naming those persons who have lectured at the request of one department of the University and not of the Trustees, and by naming some who gave but single lectures.
From The History of University Education in Maryland by Bernard Christian Steiner
