rhetoric
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The latest tensions have revived uncomfortable debates across Africa about xenophobia, migration, and the gap between pan-African rhetoric and realities facing African migrants on the continent.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
In it, she condemned the killing and also quoted some of Kirk’s rhetoric and noted that many felt harmed by it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
They once said the same thing about Shaquille O’Neal, and he won three consecutive championships here so, no, let’s pass on the rhetoric and accept the reality.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
"I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject," he later said on-air.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
It brought together the old revolutionary rhetoric, even deploying some familiar Jeffersonian language, with all the oppositional energy of the Whig tradition, then hurled it at assumption as the new incarnation of foreign domination.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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