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rhetorician

[ret-uh-rish-uhn] / ˌrɛt əˈrɪʃ ən /


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In conversation with sociologist and Hamilton University President Stephen Pepper, Obama, ever the master rhetorician, said:

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025

Obama is a trained law professor and an eloquent rhetorician, but he could not make a coherent case.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2020

But that’s not to say that this doubting 1956 novel should be completely separated from the rhetorician, who spoke with such clarity and assurance at the Cambridge Union in 1965.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2019

Franklin was a gifted rhetorician and singer, and he prospered as the pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2018

His most sustained attack on rhetoric comes in his dialogue Gorgias, where he imagines Socrates giving the eponymous rhetorician the third degree.*

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith


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