eloquent
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Tim Campbell, CEO of Baillie Gifford—that paradoxically venerable yet go-go Scottish investment house—is waxing eloquent about maybe his favorite stock in the entire universe.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
He’s eloquent, and goes deep, and their talk has a late-night intimacy; it’s not in any sense entertainment.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
It was this understanding that made the French philosophe so eloquent a defender of the rule of law and so severe a critic of direct taxation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Bass-baritone Ryan McKinny was eloquent as John Proctor, the opera’s flawed hero, cogently depicting his struggles with guilt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
He was deliberately making some eloquent unspoken plea to her, he was deliberately keeping off the subject.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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Grade 9, List 6
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