drumbeater
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of drumbeater
Example Sentences
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Of Danish descent, Philip is a discreet, supportive husband who has laid out a career of his own as a drumbeater for British industry and technology—the areas in which he sees a shrunken nation's future.
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Coy had also been�on his own hook and at risk of his job�the No. 1 drumbeater for the all-out war expansionists in their fight with OPM slowpokes.
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New York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese, travels 100,000 miles a year from his base in Panama as a roving reporter and Hemisphere drumbeater for the Trib.
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Not as a drumbeater but as a simple resident many years younger than the 68-year-olds you mention, I consider your story unfair.
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In Chicago, Drummer Al Carter, unemployed when his bandleader invented a mechanical drumbeater, vengefully perfected a mechanical baton-waver.
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