rhetoric
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By ramping up its rhetoric, is Russia also about to intensify its war?
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Megan Lam is a rising senior at UC Berkeley, where they study integrative biology, rhetoric and journalism.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
What had once been marginal to Fourth of July rhetoric became, over time, central.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The latest tensions have revived uncomfortable debates across Africa about xenophobia, migration, and the gap between pan-African rhetoric and realities facing African migrants on the continent.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
His rolling periods impressed his audiences, but if the chief object of rhetoric is to persuade, Churchill’s didn’t—much of the time—do that.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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