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Recent Examples of pamphleteer
To be a good poet or pamphleteer, like Thomas Paine or Samuel Johnson, requires a kind of day-to-day daring, with triumphs made in conversation and correspondence; a good banker or stockbroker makes his in columns of numbers.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.
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Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2026
Turning from his father’s trade of corset-making, Paine tried his hand at business, met and impressed Benjamin Franklin in London, sailed to America, and there found his true metier as a pamphleteer and radical.
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Matthew Redmond,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
Even with all his diplomatic ties, Franklin was powerless to assist Platt because of the Treason Act’s suspension of habeas corpus.
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Newspaper editors and pamphleteers circulated stories about the horrible conditions in the British prisons holding thousands of Americans.
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Time,
9 July 2025
By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.
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Timothy O'Grady,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 July 2024
However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
19 May 2024
His politics have been likened to those of William Cobbett, the English pamphleteer and working-class advocate.
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Nick Bowlin,
Harper's Magazine,
30 Mar. 2024
Palmer's narrator, Mycroft Canner, is a paroled mass murderer with an intermittent grip on sanity who writes in the style of an 18th-century pamphleteer, complete with humble appeals to the reader, veiled swipes at censors, and pauses for Socratic dialog.
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Gregory Barber,
Wired,
10 Feb. 2022
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.
—
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2026
Turning from his father’s trade of corset-making, Paine tried his hand at business, met and impressed Benjamin Franklin in London, sailed to America, and there found his true metier as a pamphleteer and radical.
—
Matthew Redmond,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
Even with all his diplomatic ties, Franklin was powerless to assist Platt because of the Treason Act’s suspension of habeas corpus.
Advertisement
Newspaper editors and pamphleteers circulated stories about the horrible conditions in the British prisons holding thousands of Americans.
—
Time,
9 July 2025
By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.
—
Timothy O'Grady,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 July 2024
However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.
—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
19 May 2024
His politics have been likened to those of William Cobbett, the English pamphleteer and working-class advocate.
—
Nick Bowlin,
Harper's Magazine,
30 Mar. 2024
Palmer's narrator, Mycroft Canner, is a paroled mass murderer with an intermittent grip on sanity who writes in the style of an 18th-century pamphleteer, complete with humble appeals to the reader, veiled swipes at censors, and pauses for Socratic dialog.
—
Gregory Barber,
Wired,
10 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pamphleteer
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James Baldwin, a poet, activist and essayist, is one of the most influential figures in American history.
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There also lies the influence of Chilean essayist Pedro Lemebel, braided into Delgado Lopera’s narrative of a father, Ignacio; his 12-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Valentina; and his trans mother, Mamadora Eléctrica, inspired by the author’s own trans mother, Adela Vázquez.
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Walden, at just 30 years of age, is already an accomplished graphic novelist with several award-winning books to her name.
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Steve Carell, who shockingly has never won an Emmy despite 11 nominations, should earn his 12th nod for playing a middle-aged novelist and concerned father in the heartfelt college comedy Rooster, which did surprisingly well for HBO.
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The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.
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In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
Noun
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Use a playwright as company in a room that had previously seemed uninhabitable.
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The Tony-winning playwright, whose works include Take Me Out and The Assembled Parties, died of cancer in 2025 at 67.
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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Sun Yi is an award-winning personal brand strategist, storyteller, TEDx speaker, podcaster, and founder of Night Owls and Night Owl Nation.
Noun
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For a satirist or a cynic, Esperantists are easy fodder.
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But satire, as a rule, falls flat when the satirist has so little to say.
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
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