as in lecturer
a person who makes usually formal public speeches
though a brilliant wordsmith, Thomas Jefferson was by his own admission an unskilled orator
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Recent Examples of orator
Mario Cuomo, the soaring orator and three-term governor, embodied the liberal conscience of the 1980s.
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Nik Popli, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
From Trying to Be, which will be published next month by Fiction Collective Two.
t the end of an earlier century, an orator named F. Matthias Alexander codified a way of understanding, or at least thinking about, the body.
—John Haskell, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Archaeologists working in the Gulf of Naples have discovered the first physical evidence of what could be a bathhouse belonging to the famed Roman orator and politician Cicero.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
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Nik Popli, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
From Trying to Be, which will be published next month by Fiction Collective Two.
t the end of an earlier century, an orator named F. Matthias Alexander codified a way of understanding, or at least thinking about, the body.
—John Haskell, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Archaeologists working in the Gulf of Naples have discovered the first physical evidence of what could be a bathhouse belonging to the famed Roman orator and politician Cicero.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orator
Noun
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Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT and founding chair of the Presencing Institute.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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But her rocky start will be tough to turn around according to Tom Bettag, a former network news producer who is now a lecturer at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The speaker also has alarms for waking up to a favorite playlist or radio station.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Matthew McCormick, education director at the conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation, was the lone speaker who testified in favor of the list.—
Silas Allen,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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