debater

Example Sentences

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She was a fearless thinker, a champion debater, with surgical insight, completely untethered by convention.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

Nixon himself later admitted that he looked more at Kennedy than the nation because he was behaving as a traditional debater, who advocates for their argument and capitalizes on their opponent's weaknesses through direct confrontation.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024

The first thing we’ll see is one fewer debater.

From Slate • Sep. 27, 2023

According to Meta, NFL star Tom Brady will play an AI character called 'Bru', "a wisecracking sports debater" and YouTube star MrBeast will play 'Zach', a big brother "who will roast you".

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023

From the start, I saw that Oliver’s intelligence was diamond-edged; he was a keen debater and did not accept the platitudes that so many of us automatically subscribed to.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela