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oratory

[awr-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, or-] / ˈɔr əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈɒr- /


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Much attention has been focused on Donald Trump’s use of words — that is, his peculiar style of oratory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025

With his father often on the road, the pastor of their church became a mentor to Thomas and noticed his oratory skills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

Before he spoke, he was terribly nervous—but how he described those nerves gives an insight into how thoroughgoing was his theory of oratory: Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

But even in parts where wood was easily procured, oratories seem to have been sometimes, from an early period, built of stone.

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by John Stuart




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