debater
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Before the debates, Mr. Bush and his advisers managed expectations by hyping Mr. Gore as a great debater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
She was a fearless thinker, a champion debater, with surgical insight, completely untethered by convention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
A witty and brilliant debater, he did not always show the best judgement.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
Nixon himself later admitted that he looked more at Kennedy than the nation because he was behaving as a traditional debater, who advocates for their argument and capitalizes on their opponent's weaknesses through direct confrontation.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
From the start, I saw that Oliver’s intelligence was diamond-edged; he was a keen debater and did not accept the platitudes that so many of us automatically subscribed to.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
