spellbinder

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Recent Examples of spellbinder William Jennings Bryan, the evangelical spellbinder from Nebraska, argued in the 1896 presidential election that McKinley Republicans were the party of corporate power, corporate subsidies, and the gold standard. Brenda Wineapple, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017 This performance was, more often than not, a spellbinder. Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spellbinder
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Anna Jankowska, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • 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).
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The festival is the brainchild of UNC Charlotte lecturer and Oz expert Dina Schiff Massachi.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Spellbinder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spellbinder. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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