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- the mayor's promise to fight drugs was just rhetoric, since there was no money in the city budget for a drug program
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- great leaders have often been masters of rhetoric, which they have used for both good and ill
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- articulacy
- [chiefly British],
- articulateness,
- eloquence,
- poetry
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The first known use of rhetoric was in the 14th century
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