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Recent Examples of pamphleteer
By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.
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Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
His politics have been likened to those of William Cobbett, the English pamphleteer and working-class advocate.
—Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Palmer's narrator, Mycroft Canner, is a paroled mass murderer with an intermittent grip on sanity who writes in the style of an 18th-century pamphleteer, complete with humble appeals to the reader, veiled swipes at censors, and pauses for Socratic dialog.
—Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
Now Corliss Lamont, an American pamphleteer, challenged the law.
—Anupam Chander, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters.
—Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters.
—Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters.
—Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
His politics have been likened to those of William Cobbett, the English pamphleteer and working-class advocate.
—Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Palmer's narrator, Mycroft Canner, is a paroled mass murderer with an intermittent grip on sanity who writes in the style of an 18th-century pamphleteer, complete with humble appeals to the reader, veiled swipes at censors, and pauses for Socratic dialog.
—Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
Now Corliss Lamont, an American pamphleteer, challenged the law.
—Anupam Chander, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters.
—Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters.
—Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters.
—Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pamphleteer
Noun
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Lewis had always brought an essayist’s sensibility to the art of editing.—
Donovan Hohn
June 13,
Literary Hub,
13 June 2025
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Theatre, as every essayist turned performer discovers, depends less on elegance of expression than on character, context, and event.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Veteran screenwriter and novelist Kazuki Nakashima penned the screenplay, with character designs by Takashi Okazaki and music by Yugo Kanno.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
13 June 2025
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Novels about novelists struggling to write novels have proliferated since the medium’s advent, from Joyce to Miller to Bolaño to Lerner to Chabon to Byatt to Baldwin.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
12 June 2025
Noun
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Roberts also included a couple of snapshots of Richardson enjoying the party alongside the partygoers, including Danielle Brooks, Purpose producer Debra Martin Chase and Purpose playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
3 June 2025
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Now, a living playwright can be both a blessing and a curse.—
Sarah Paulson,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Dante is a masterful storyteller and unflinching in his recollections.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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Comedian, storyteller and public speaker Ali Siddiq is on the way to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach with his In the Shadows tour stop on Dec. 20.—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Created by English writer and satirist Charlie Brooker, the Netflix anthology series weaves our anxieties over technology's growing ubiquity with sci-fi and horror elements, as well as a bit of comedy.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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House Bill 1277 could have been written by the satirists at The Onion.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
19 May 2025
Noun
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This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The Texan outlaw John Wesley Hardin, on the other hand, was no fabulist.—
Paul Begala,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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White worked for the infamous InfoWars media site run by fabulist Alex Jones.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2025
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“Pamphleteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pamphleteer. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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