orator
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From Ossoff, he learned how to braid in being an intellectual and polished orator, how debate-club tactics can work as long as you eschew the tie and show an inch of clavicle.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Davies partly credits the Query Club with helping create Bevan the orator.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
It wasn’t a magnetic performance; nobody’s likely to compare Miliband to Winston Churchill or Barack Obama as an orator.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Other than the Bible, it was the bestselling book in 19th-century America, and it brought the abolitionist movement to mainstream awareness as no politician or orator had done before it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Some birds, such as parrots, are known to be good talkers, but to Penelope’s knowledge there had never been a great orator among them.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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While Mr. Perl-Rosenthal skillfully charts the public philosophy of the orators, the story feels somewhat incomplete without lingering on the man who effectively codified their dissent into a national creed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
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
One book described how orators in ancient Rome would use “loci,” or reference points, to remember long passages.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023
Pamphlets of verse by negro poets, autobiographies of colored orators.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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