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Recent Examples of rhetorician
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhetorician
Noun
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In Millard’s telling, Garfield truly was a potential successor to Lincoln, a great orator and sturdy Midwesterner who abhorred slavery and spoke to the country’s highest ideals.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
6 Nov. 2025
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Mario Cuomo, the soaring orator and three-term governor, embodied the liberal conscience of the 1980s.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The 20-member male and female cast includes a lineup of entrepreneurs, an attorney, real estate professionals, nurse, artists, chefs, insurance broker, university lecturer and more.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Rhetorician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhetorician. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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