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Recent Examples of rhetoricianConley 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 Augustine was a first-rate rhetorician.—Aaron Alexander Zubia, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022 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 But the rhetorician in me sees insights in Ancient Greece.—Aaron Duncan, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2020
Archaeologists working in the Gulf of Naples have discovered the first physical evidence of what could be a bathhouse belonging to the famed Roman orator and politician Cicero.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Aug. 2025
Stoic leaders, such as Marcus Aurelius and the great Roman orator Cicero, were intensely preoccupied with justice and the language used to administer it.
Fall foliage appears when leaves change from green to yellow, orange, and red, then falls from the trees, said Brandon Fuller, a doctoral candidate and lecturer in the biology department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
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Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
The festival is the brainchild of UNC Charlotte lecturer and Oz expert Dina Schiff Massachi.
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