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Recent Examples of spellbinder
William Jennings Bryan, the evangelical spellbinder from Nebraska, argued in the 1896 presidential election that McKinley Republicans were the party of corporate power, corporate subsidies, and the gold standard.
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Brenda Wineapple, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
This performance was, more often than not, a spellbinder.
—Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spellbinder
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Conley is a rhetorician who researches how cultural influences shape our everyday habits, preferences, biases and desires, particularly in the area of food and taste.—
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And, to be fair, inside the Fiserv Forum, the consummate rhetoricians were men of color—Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, Vivek Ramaswamy, and, the most fervent of all, Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor from Detroit.—
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And he can’t be described as a persuasive orator.—
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This year’s theme is centered around orator and scholar Frederick Douglass.—
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Gemma Pearson, a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) specialist in Veterinary Behavioural Medicine (Equine) and a lecturer at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Scotland, who was not involved in the study, praised the research.—
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Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.—
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“Spellbinder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spellbinder. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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