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Recent Examples of rhetorician
Well, the ancient rhetorician and jurist Cicero gave as good an answer as any back in the times of Julius Caesar.
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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhetorician
Noun
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According to an insider, Curry was chosen to speak for his role as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and his talent as an orator.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
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The power of an orator who can, in this way, fuse feeling and doctrine is immense.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Since the letter’s publication, more than 1,400 professors and lecturers have co-signed it.—
Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2026
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His father, Fahd Abu Haikal, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, was shot in the hand.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 June 2026
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“Rhetorician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhetorician. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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