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We also tend to think of a filibusterer as somebody who has a way with words.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2021

Alcee Hastings, a once-impeached judge who is now the best Democratic filibusterer on the committee, asked Rules Chairman Pete Sessions if he’d cleared this plan with Senate Democrats.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2013

Bonus Explainer: Texas Senate rules require a filibusterer to stand at her desk without leaning.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2013

For Melinda Henneberger, Davis’s filibuster was misguided: There’s a lot to admire about the celebrated filibusterer Wendy Davis, and her overnight victory over blatant cheaters.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2013

What?" cried the chevalier, "does Blue Beard coquette at the same time with a filibusterer, a buccaneer, and a cannibal?

From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène