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sayer

  • a word derived from say.

Example Sentences

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“She’s an executor and a doer, not just a sayer and a talker,” Ms. Winfrey said during a phone interview.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2018

Salvatore Caputa, a self-proclaimed sayer and former policeman from Sicily, drew pilgrims from Germany, Austria and Italy, some on crutches and in wheelchairs.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2017

Footnote: Can a reader assist in identifying the sayer of the following remark?

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2014

Belgian Demographer Jacques Mertens de Wilmars is the nay sayer.

From Time Magazine Archive

By temperament a singer as well as a seer and sayer, Emerson was nevertheless deficient in the singing voice.

From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss