Etymology
Origin of uplifter
Example Sentences
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And while acquainted with members of the Harlem Renaissance, she scoffed at the notion that she might be “a silly uplifter of the race.”
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2018
Vain, shrewd, assertive, benevolent, half uplifter, half showman, at 60 De Mille is Hollywood's oldest successful movie maker.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He carried his instructions in his head, but uplifter Elbert Hubbard's editorial, A Message to Garcia, put a letter in his hand, later put money in Hubbard's pocket, ultimately sold more than 40,000,000 copies.
From Time Magazine Archive
It made Tibbie think of death, the opener of sleeping eyes, the uplifter of hanging hands.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George
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