oratory
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His oratory and pen helped shape the 14th Amendment’s guarantees of citizenship and equal protection and the 15th’s promise of black male suffrage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
His gift for oratory could energize all kinds of people, including workers, presidents and other heads of state.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025
It announced that the school oratory would be open on Saturday and Sunday for pupils and their families to come together to remember Tiarnán.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 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
They found no Gobblers, but the catacombs under the oratory kept Lyra and Roger busy for days.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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Speech and Debate
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President Obama's Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
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