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oratory

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


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Instead, he offered the oratory equivalent of a pat on the shoulder.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

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

He did not stop the flood of treasonable oratory which poured forth from men like Warren and Quincy.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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 country has about 6,000 parish centers for young people, called oratories, and almost all have sports facilities, said Don Marco Mori, president of the Forum of Italian Oratories.

From New York Times Jun. 16, 2010

Stone-roofed oratories of a more complex and elaborate architectural character than that of Inchcolm still exist in Ireland, and of a supposed very early date.

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John




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