orator

A charismatic orator, the then-43-year-old found herself helming a burgeoning democracy movement, but was put under house arrest in 1989.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Handsome and dynamic, an orator with a flair for memorable rhyme, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was the first Black candidate for president to attract a major following.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026

A gifted orator, Jackson articulated the frustrations of those who felt like second-class citizens in the world's most prosperous democracy.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

He was the namesake of the boxer later known as Muhammad Ali, whose ancestors had been enslaved by the white Cassius’s cousin Henry Clay, the antebellum orator and senator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

“Cicero teased a lesser orator called Curio for having so faulty a memory that “at times when he had announced three points he would add a fourth or miss the third.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

This period saw a brilliant revitalization by Roman writers and orators of older Greek rhetorical techniques; it was “tinged with a romanticism common to movements oriented toward the distant past.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

By the 4th century BCE, Athenian orators even quoted lines from the tragedians in court, knowing that jurors “liked quotations from tragedy,” in one scholar’s words.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025

Luckily, he’s a once-in-a-generation political talent himself and one of the greatest orators in modern life.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2024

“It is here where he would begin his career as one of the most renowned orators of the 19th century.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Garfield, one of the Republicans’ most accomplished orators, modified this tradition.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow