rhetorician
noun
rhet·o·ri·cian
ˌre-tə-ˈri-shən 
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And, to be fair, inside the Fiserv Forum, the consummate rhetoricians were men of color—Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, Vivek Ramaswamy, and, the most fervent of all, Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor from Detroit.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
Then, there’s the way the line underscores Harris’s skills as a rhetorician—which, after Biden’s lackluster debate performance, began to seem especially noteworthy.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 July 2024
Augustine was a first-rate rhetorician.
—Aaron Alexander Zubia, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
The responsible party leader appeared as a cruel tyrant, the inspiring rhetorician as a vicious demagogue.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2021
Disability rhetorician Jay Dolmage has repeatedly invoked Hephaestus in his work.
—Autumn Wright, Wired, 16 Jan. 2021
While Simmons built alliances and Daniels kept up a drumbeat of virulently racist cartoons and editorials full of misinformation throughout the run-up to the election of November 8, 1898, Waddell was the rhetorician of this movement.
—David W. Blight, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
But the rhetorician in me sees insights in Ancient Greece.
—Aaron Duncan, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2020
But Magufuli’s Covid-19 response is bringing to the fore another, often overlooked perspective: the president as politician and rhetorician.
—Dan Paget, Quartz Africa, 13 May 2020
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
Then, there’s the way the line underscores Harris’s skills as a rhetorician—which, after Biden’s lackluster debate performance, began to seem especially noteworthy.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 July 2024
Augustine was a first-rate rhetorician.
—Aaron Alexander Zubia, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
The responsible party leader appeared as a cruel tyrant, the inspiring rhetorician as a vicious demagogue.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2021
Disability rhetorician Jay Dolmage has repeatedly invoked Hephaestus in his work.
—Autumn Wright, Wired, 16 Jan. 2021
While Simmons built alliances and Daniels kept up a drumbeat of virulently racist cartoons and editorials full of misinformation throughout the run-up to the election of November 8, 1898, Waddell was the rhetorician of this movement.
—David W. Blight, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
But the rhetorician in me sees insights in Ancient Greece.
—Aaron Duncan, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2020
But Magufuli’s Covid-19 response is bringing to the fore another, often overlooked perspective: the president as politician and rhetorician.
—Dan Paget, Quartz Africa, 13 May 2020
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“Rhetorician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhetorician. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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