rhetorician

Definition of rhetoriciannext

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Recent Examples of rhetorician Remember, the Roman rhetorician Quintilian called it interpositio, drawing attention to putting something in the middle of something else. — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026 Well, the ancient rhetorician and jurist Cicero gave as good an answer as any back in the times of Julius Caesar. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026 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. — 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhetorician
Noun
  • Being a competent, eloquent orator does not mean that you’re trusted.
    — Jamil Wyne, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • This meant moving outside of the traditional tableau of White House photojournalism—an orator on a pedestal—to show members of the press in postures of alertness or repose.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • After more than a year of negotiations and a proposal from the CSU to increase salaries by 3%, the California Faculty Association — which represents about 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches — declared impasse in July.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Elizabeth Shackelford is a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune and a lecturer with the Dickey Center at Dartmouth College.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Rhetorician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhetorician. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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