speechmaker
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She’s a reasonably good speechmaker, but she’s no Obama — by which I mean Michelle Obama, whose impassioned appeal dominated the first night’s proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2020
“Most big speeches start with the politician, the leader, the speechmaker, giving a sense of what they think,” a former Party official, who worked for May at the time, told me.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2018
In Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Jefferson gravitated to the radical Whig faction led by Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, but distinguished himself as a brilliant political writer rather than speechmaker.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It’s as if he can be a sage on deadline, whereas, left more space in which to lose himself, he sounds like a professional speechmaker in a hurry.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2015
Through all his life Washington was no speechmaker.
From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Paul Leicester Ford
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