pamphleteer

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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. 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 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
  • Baggot, who will also serve as executive producer, is a novelist, essayist, poet and associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.
    Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The answer may or may not be English novelist Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague, the story of an epistolary friendship between several characters, including the book’s namesake.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • By Emily Bazelon The novelist anticipated our bizarre present.
    Astead W. Herndon Astead W. Herndon Emily Bazelon Parul Sehgal Andrew Ross Sorkin Kwame Anthony Appiah Lisa Donovan Julian Brave NoiseCat John Hodgman, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Pray Speak What Has Happened, the track complements a powerhouse lineup with renowned playwright Koki Mitani as screenwriter and Japanese superstar Masaki Suda in the lead role.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The French playwright and director Caroline Guiela Nguyen grew up hearing accents from all around the world.
    Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This might compel me to reshape the narrator’s style and tone in hopes of conjuring a more engaging storyteller.
    Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Colleagues saw her as a yenta, a mentor and a storyteller who was always tough and true to herself.
    NPR, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the days following the podcast appearance, the author shared a parody by British satirist Intel Lady that characterizes Watson as contradictory and fame-hungry.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Iannucci is the latest satirist to speak out about the chilling effect on free speech in comedy following ABC’s brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel after Brendan Carr’s threats, as well as Paramount’s decision to cancel Stephen Colbert.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.
    Adam Graham, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Pamphleteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pamphleteer. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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