orator
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It wasn’t a magnetic performance; nobody’s likely to compare Miliband to Winston Churchill or Barack Obama as an orator.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Though the powerful 19th-century editor Horace Greeley did so, his former employee and future competitor, Henry J. Raymond, started off as a pro-Whig orator, writer and editor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
A charismatic orator, the then-43-year-old found herself helming a burgeoning democracy movement, but was put under house arrest in 1989.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Handsome and dynamic, an orator with a flair for memorable rhyme, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was the first Black candidate for president to attract a major following.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
He was something of an orator, and said in a carrying voice, “Mr. Hammond, as a welcome stranger among us, you’re to have the first shot.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
While Mr. Perl-Rosenthal skillfully charts the public philosophy of the orators, the story feels somewhat incomplete without lingering on the man who effectively codified their dissent into a national creed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
I often return to the wisdom of Frederick Douglass, a formerly enslaved person and one of this country’s greatest thinkers and orators.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
Luckily, he’s a once-in-a-generation political talent himself and one of the greatest orators in modern life.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2024
One book described how orators in ancient Rome would use “loci,” or reference points, to remember long passages.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023
As for the park itself, it was an American version of a Middle Eastern bazaar, with folk singers, storytellers, beggars, political dissidents, soapbox orators, and even the occasional snake charmer.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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