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Recent Examples of rhetorician
Well, the ancient rhetorician and jurist Cicero gave as good an answer as any back in the times of Julius Caesar.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
Conley is a rhetorician who researches how cultural influences shape our everyday habits, preferences, biases and desires, particularly in the area of food and taste.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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.
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Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
22 July 2024
Disability rhetorician Jay Dolmage has repeatedly invoked Hephaestus in his work.
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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.
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David W. Blight,
The New York Review of Books,
3 Nov. 2020
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
Conley is a rhetorician who researches how cultural influences shape our everyday habits, preferences, biases and desires, particularly in the area of food and taste.
—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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.
—
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhetorician
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Photography and the secret of Frederick Douglass' power Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and became an influential orator, writer and intellectual, was the most photographed person in America in the 19th century.
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The Greek philosopher and orator Antisthenes, commonly referred to as the father of Cynicism, famously taught his students at the Cynosarges.
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Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.
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According to historian, author and lecturer Roger Smith, Florida's absence from most Revolutionary War lessons stems from one key fact.
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“Rhetorician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhetorician. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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