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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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“Orator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orator. Accessed 26 Jan. 2021.

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