speechwriter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of speechwriter
Example Sentences
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To make the case, Graham said he worked closely with two other men—retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, a Fox News contributor, and Marc Thiessen, onetime chief speechwriter for former President George W. Bush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
Before rejoining the Journal in April 2007, she spent two years at the White House as a speechwriter to President Bush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
The book is ostensibly “authored” by McCartney even though it is an oral history that has been edited by Ted Widmer, an estimable historian and a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
Beattie is a former Duke University professor and Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after it came out that he spoke at a conference regularly attended by white nationalists.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025
With the convention drawing close, I worked with a speechwriter for the first time, a gifted young woman named Sarah Hurwitz who helped shape my ideas into a tight seventeen-minute speech.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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