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orator

[awr-uh-ter, or-] / ˈɔr ə tər, ˈɒr- /


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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

King’s “I Have a Dream” speech exemplified his prowess as an orator.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

We know Augustine in a way that we do no other ancient individual except perhaps Cicero, the Roman orator of the late Republic whose writings were required texts for centuries of schoolboys.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

On a scarlet- draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large, bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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