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Recent Examples of rhetorician
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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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
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.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
Then, there’s the way the line underscores Harris’s skills as a rhetorician—which, after Biden’s lackluster debate performance, began to seem especially noteworthy.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 July 2024
Augustine was a first-rate rhetorician.
—Aaron Alexander Zubia, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
Disability rhetorician Jay Dolmage has repeatedly invoked Hephaestus in his work.
—Autumn Wright, Wired, 16 Jan. 2021
While Simmons built alliances and Daniels kept up a drumbeat of virulently racist cartoons and editorials full of misinformation throughout the run-up to the election of November 8, 1898, Waddell was the rhetorician of this movement.
—David W. Blight, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
But the rhetorician in me sees insights in Ancient Greece.
—Aaron Duncan, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhetorician
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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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“Rhetorician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhetorician. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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