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Recent Examples of pamphleteer
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.
—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
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
Noun
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May Teng is an Indonesian-American writer and essayist based in Brooklyn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Parti has been developing the six-part series for years, working with Imran Mahmood, a criminal barrister, novelist, and screenwriter.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2026
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Back in Seoul, star novelist and No 1.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
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The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.—
Amanda Stanfield,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 2026
Noun
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All the more so in the case of the characters in the British playwright Joe White’s Blackout Songs, who can’t remember any details of their first night together.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2026
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Buckley plays the wife of a struggling playwright named William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal, whose Oscar omission was a surprise).—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Adventures have taken children and parents from the Caribbean to India to Japan, bringing local storytellers, craftsmen, and guides into the narrative.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Robert Redford loved storytellers.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Alexandra Tanner’s Worry is soon headed to a laptop near you, under the direction of vetted satirist Nicole Holofcener.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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The satirist from Windham died following a long battle with prostate cancer, according to his ex-wife, Shelly Miles.—
Brian Niemietz,
Boston Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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“Pamphleteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pamphleteer. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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