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Recent Examples of pamphleteer
By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.
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Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
His politics have been likened to those of William Cobbett, the English pamphleteer and working-class advocate.
—Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Palmer's narrator, Mycroft Canner, is a paroled mass murderer with an intermittent grip on sanity who writes in the style of an 18th-century pamphleteer, complete with humble appeals to the reader, veiled swipes at censors, and pauses for Socratic dialog.
—Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
Now Corliss Lamont, an American pamphleteer, challenged the law.
—Anupam Chander, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters.
—Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
His politics have been likened to those of William Cobbett, the English pamphleteer and working-class advocate.
—Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Palmer's narrator, Mycroft Canner, is a paroled mass murderer with an intermittent grip on sanity who writes in the style of an 18th-century pamphleteer, complete with humble appeals to the reader, veiled swipes at censors, and pauses for Socratic dialog.
—Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
Now Corliss Lamont, an American pamphleteer, challenged the law.
—Anupam Chander, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters.
—Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pamphleteer
Noun
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Born in London in 1882, Milne was a prolific humorist, editor, essayist and playwright.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Jan. 2025
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Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.—
Meg Bernhard,
Hazlitt,
4 Jan. 2025
Noun
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More recently, Irish novelists Sally Rooney and Claire Keegan have had huge international success.—
Kathy Rose O'Brien,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
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Morrison knew there wasn’t much of a precedent for a novelist writing a successful play.—
Elon Green,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.—
Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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As previously mentioned, Brewer, best known for her roles on Orange Is the New Black (2013) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017–present), plays Bronte, a playwright who works for Joe at his bookstore.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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He is survived by his wife, the playwright Paula Fourie, and three children.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
10 Mar. 2025
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Like many storytellers with a passion for seeking justice, Rangeley followed college with law school and a career in social and criminal justice.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
13 Mar. 2025
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Highlighting artists as storytellers, the installation invites visitors to see the Museum not just as a repository of art, but as a dynamic, living space where culture is continually created, interpreted, reimagined, and hopefully reflected in their own story.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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With a style that blends hip-hop culture with the surrealism of satirists like Terry Gilliam and Michel Gondry, this comedy takes no prisoners.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
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Since his brief stint with the band Fleet Foxes, Tillman has built out existential concept records that span folk, big-band jazz, soft rock, and indie pop, with a satirist’s eye for the disturbingly absurd.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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With his distinct style, business sense and comedy that’s been steadily consumed by the masses for over a quarter of a century, the comic has developed a fabulist folklore around his rise to fame akin to his favorite things outside of stand-up — videogames and professional wrestling.—
Nate Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Pamphleteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pamphleteer. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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