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Recent Examples of pamphleteer
To be a good poet or pamphleteer, like Thomas Paine or Samuel Johnson, requires a kind of day-to-day daring, with triumphs made in conversation and correspondence; a good banker or stockbroker makes his in columns of numbers.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2026
Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.
—Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2026
Turning from his father’s trade of corset-making, Paine tried his hand at business, met and impressed Benjamin Franklin in London, sailed to America, and there found his true metier as a pamphleteer and radical.
—Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Even with all his diplomatic ties, Franklin was powerless to assist Platt because of the Treason Act’s suspension of habeas corpus.
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Newspaper editors and pamphleteers circulated stories about the horrible conditions in the British prisons holding thousands of Americans.
—Time, 9 July 2025
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.
—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
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2026
Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.
—Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2026
Turning from his father’s trade of corset-making, Paine tried his hand at business, met and impressed Benjamin Franklin in London, sailed to America, and there found his true metier as a pamphleteer and radical.
—Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Even with all his diplomatic ties, Franklin was powerless to assist Platt because of the Treason Act’s suspension of habeas corpus.
Advertisement
Newspaper editors and pamphleteers circulated stories about the horrible conditions in the British prisons holding thousands of Americans.
—Time, 9 July 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pamphleteer
Noun
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Ali Raz is a fiction writer, essayist, and author of the collaborative poetry project Human Tetris and the novella Alien.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review.—
Gabrielle Glancy,
Rolling Stone,
9 May 2026
Noun
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The travelers are the famous novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller), who is serving on this trip as her father’s assistant, driver, editor, and barber.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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The screenplay is co-written by Annila and Rachelle Atalla, a Scottish-Egyptian novelist and screenwriter.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 May 2026
Noun
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In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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The debate centers on alternate theories proposing that Shakespeare was a front for the real dramatist (or dramatists).—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But one thing that grew up in this production of playwright Luis Alfaro’s Chicano trilogy that the theatre began two years ago was Three Bone.—
Zach Dennis,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2026
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It was later renamed in 1959 for playwright Eugene O'Neill, widely considered the father of modern American drama.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
Noun
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And this is the director in him, the storyteller in him.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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The winners in this next phase will be the companies that can build around human storytellers who have earned genuine trust at scale.—
Lin Cherry,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
Noun
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But satire, as a rule, falls flat when the satirist has so little to say.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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The musical marks the latest major project for Yankovic, whose career as America's foremost musical satirist has stretched more than four decades.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
Noun
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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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
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