pamphleteer

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Recent Examples of pamphleteer 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 Now Corliss Lamont, an American pamphleteer, challenged the law. Anupam Chander, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020 When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters. Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019 When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters. Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019 When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters. Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pamphleteer
Noun
  • The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.
    Lynn Steger Strong, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2025
  • There goes America’s competitive advantage in a warming world, by Robinson Meyer, guest essayist, The New York Times.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The movie, based on the 2016 by the same name, imagines a fictional pope's death and the subsequent election with characters and twists created by novelist Harris.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
  • At the Old Stone House, the three people who showed up to join the venue’s director of education, Maggie Weber, were all female Brooklynites: a political-science student, an attorney turned novelist, and a middle-school teacher.
    Henry Alford, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Toward the end of our lunch, Henry mentions how one of his favorite playwrights is Tony Kushner.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Some playwrights are as musical with their words as jazz musicians.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The boy who had once listened to enslaved storytellers had become a virtuoso yarn-spinner.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The two-day event is expected to bring together more than 550 storytellers across seven outdoor stages and 15 indoor venues.
    Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Greg Gutfeld, Fox News’s late-night satirist, scoffed at the idea that Mr. Newsom and Mr. Walz were trying to define masculinity for the Democratic Party.
    Laurel Rosenhall, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Pamphleteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pamphleteer. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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