oratory
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His oratory and pen helped shape the 14th Amendment’s guarantees of citizenship and equal protection and the 15th’s promise of black male suffrage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
While his oratory continues to project passion for justice, his controversial image has faded somewhat as his civil rights goals have become more inclusive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
They were masterpieces of political oratory not despite their lack of weighty marble-clad phrases but because of it.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
Her 40-minute speech was not exactly the soaring oratory that the Obamas delivered earlier in the week, but the euphoria and confidence in the arena was palpable.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024
It didn’t take long to find it; the little town was clustered around the harbor, with the oratory and the governor’s house the only buildings of any size.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
She would go off on these different speech oratories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
The Vatican has already shut down St Peter's Square and St Peter's Basilica while allowing only a small number of oratories in convents and monasteries to remain open.
From Fox News ● Mar. 13, 2020
Almost half of the oratories came from President Bill Clinton, who went on a two-term coffin fit by speaking at 26 funerals between 1994 and 2001.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2018
The diocese of Brescia near Milan, he said, has 400 priests, 408 oratories and 426 soccer fields.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2010
The guard-rooms, the bedrooms, the closets, the oratories have recovered their identity.
From A Little Tour of France by Joseph Pennell
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Speech and Debate
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President Obama's Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
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