oratory
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Perhaps Mr. Pinsker grants Lincoln too little credit for inspiring voters with his soaring oratory; even the canonical speeches are analyzed here primarily for political messaging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Much attention has been focused on Donald Trump’s use of words — that is, his peculiar style of oratory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
It announced that the school oratory would be open on Saturday and Sunday for pupils and their families to come together to remember Tiarnán.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025
So far, the Democratic National Convention has been filled with era-marking oratory.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2024
All the sisters would be in the oratory for the final service of the day, except for Sister Fenella, he supposed, and Sister Katarina, if she was looking after Lyra.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
She would go off on these different speech oratories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
The Vatican has already shut down St Peter's Square and St Peter's Basilica while allowing only a small number of oratories in convents and monasteries to remain open.
From Fox News ● Mar. 13, 2020
Almost half of the oratories came from President Bill Clinton, who went on a two-term coffin fit by speaking at 26 funerals between 1994 and 2001.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2018
The diocese of Brescia near Milan, he said, has 400 priests, 408 oratories and 426 soccer fields.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2010
If the tradition be true, it renders the use to which these oratories are now applied, and the condition of the occupants of these dwellings, more sad and revolting by contrast.
From Notes on Old Edinburgh by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Vocabulary lists containing oratory
Speech and Debate
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President Obama's Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
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