Example Sentences

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Rhetorically, the speech may not have been especially memorable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2021

Rhetorically, pop music has caught up with Morissette.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2019

Rhetorically, the tech companies gesture toward individuality — to the empowerment of the “user” — but their worldview rolls over it.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2017

Rhetorically, the Administration was an aural experience, heard through the radio-style mesh of the TV speaker.

From The New Yorker • May 15, 2017

Rhetorically speaking, however, by what measure and under whose authority is "enough" determined?

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann