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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

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

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

“Somewhere down Port Meadow. There’s that oratory off to the right with a grove of trees....”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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