peroration
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Before Churchill told the British in his celebrated peroration that "we shall never surrender," he had not spared them from the truth that they had suffered a "colossal military disaster".
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2025
Frank came to the stage with a detailed two-page peroration and zero intention of editing what he had to say.
From Salon • Sep. 20, 2021
By way of peroration, Saïed vowed to “work so that all the laws apply to all Tunisians, including myself.”
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2019
And the attempted denouement, in which a Chaplinesque ayatollah delivers a peroration, untied nothing for me.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2017
Figures of auxesis and repetition—often pulling together words or themes from earlier in the speech—commonly proliferate in the peroration, and many orators will crank it up a little in the direction of the grand style.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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