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Recent Examples of rhetoricianBy copying texts, the monk incorporated the words, absorbing them in a process akin to that described by the Greek rhetorician Quintilian, who emphasized internalizing classical texts as a foundation for oratory and writing.—Literary Hub,
6 July 2026 Well, the ancient rhetorician and jurist Cicero gave as good an answer as any back in the times of Julius Caesar.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026 Conley is a rhetorician who researches how cultural influences shape our everyday habits, preferences, biases and desires, particularly in the area of food and taste.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025 And, to be fair, inside the Fiserv Forum, the consummate rhetoricians were men of color—Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, Vivek Ramaswamy, and, the most fervent of all, Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor from Detroit.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
25 July 2024 Then, there’s the way the line underscores Harris’s skills as a rhetorician—which, after Biden’s lackluster debate performance, began to seem especially noteworthy.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
22 July 2024 Disability rhetorician Jay Dolmage has repeatedly invoked Hephaestus in his work.—
Autumn Wright,
Wired,
16 Jan. 2021 While Simmons built alliances and Daniels kept up a drumbeat of virulently racist cartoons and editorials full of misinformation throughout the run-up to the election of November 8, 1898, Waddell was the rhetorician of this movement.—
David W. Blight,
The New York Review of Books,
3 Nov. 2020
This meant moving outside of the traditional tableau of White House photojournalism—an orator on a pedestal—to show members of the press in postures of alertness or repose.
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Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
24 July 2026
Jublin was fascinated by great orators—especially political heavyweights like former French president Jacques Chirac.