public speaking

as in speech
the art of speaking in public eloquently and effectively she is very experienced in public speaking and should do well in her campaign appearances before large crowds

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Recent Examples of public speaking This is followed by a full moon in Taurus, igniting your third house of thought processes and immediate surroundings, which is ideal for writing, public speaking or other forms of communication. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024 There are few people who genuinely love public speaking. Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024 In the survey, 1,008 people across the United States were asked about 85 fears, including natural disasters, crime, ghosts, public speaking, and more. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024 Each personalized roadmap included professional skills development (e.g., public speaking) and business plans to build key competencies for promotion such as client recruitment, mentoring and training of junior staff and developing relationships with external stakeholders. Kathleen Shanley, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for public speaking 
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Noun
  • The management changes were announced as part of the company’s twentieth anniversary celebrations which also featured a speech from Alibaba and Ant Group founder Jack Ma.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
  • For the next 10 minutes, Valvano delivered a speech that still resonates today, mixing humor, motivational anecdotes and inspiring people to cherish their lives.
    Tim Casey, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • One source of Trump’s instinctive, inimitable political talent is that, for him, oratory and advertisement are entirely coeval domains.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • He was not limited to a single playing field either in sports (baseball, basketball, and football) or the arts (acting, oratory, and singing).
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Yet Biden administration officials have not espoused the same explicitly anti-media rhetoric as Trump and his top allies have for years.
    Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
  • His harsh stance on immigration and refugees echoes the same xenophobic rhetoric that has fueled fear and division across the globe.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024

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“Public speaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20speaking. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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