as in lecturer
a person who makes usually formal public speeches
though a brilliant wordsmith, Thomas Jefferson was by his own admission an unskilled orator
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Recent Examples of orator
Mario Cuomo, the soaring orator and three-term governor, embodied the liberal conscience of the 1980s.
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Nik Popli, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
From Trying to Be, which will be published next month by Fiction Collective Two.
t the end of an earlier century, an orator named F. Matthias Alexander codified a way of understanding, or at least thinking about, the body.
—John Haskell, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Archaeologists working in the Gulf of Naples have discovered the first physical evidence of what could be a bathhouse belonging to the famed Roman orator and politician Cicero.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
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Nik Popli, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
From Trying to Be, which will be published next month by Fiction Collective Two.
t the end of an earlier century, an orator named F. Matthias Alexander codified a way of understanding, or at least thinking about, the body.
—John Haskell, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Archaeologists working in the Gulf of Naples have discovered the first physical evidence of what could be a bathhouse belonging to the famed Roman orator and politician Cicero.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orator
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Gemma Pearson, a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) specialist in Veterinary Behavioural Medicine (Equine) and a lecturer at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Scotland, who was not involved in the study, praised the research.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
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Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.—
Richard Hughes IV,
STAT,
12 Jan. 2026
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The footage also shows a federal agent at one point using a portable speaker to order the group to disperse.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
15 Jan. 2026
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Target sound by using a portable radio or speaker to play music or talk shows near the animal den.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Orator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orator. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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