phrasemaker
Americannoun
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a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
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a person who makes catchy but often meaningless or empty statements.
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She goes out of her way not to be a phrasemaker; much of her writing has the murmury, urgent, working-it-out-in-real-time quality of someone writing by hand on a bouncy bus.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
That mysterious, koan-like statement by the theorist and legendary phrasemaker John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton has stood for half a century as one of the brute pillars of modern physics.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2016
Choice phrasemaker and Hackney laureate Sinclair ventures to the US on the trail of the Beats.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2013
He was distinguish- ed as an erudite pundit, a writer of stylish prose and a lively phrasemaker.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2010
The poet is a "phrasemaker"; true; but show us the man in these days who is more than a phrasemaker!
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
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