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Recent Examples of spellbinder
The speech Jackson makes is a spellbinder.
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Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
William Jennings Bryan, the evangelical spellbinder from Nebraska, argued in the 1896 presidential election that McKinley Republicans were the party of corporate power, corporate subsidies, and the gold standard.
—Brenda Wineapple, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
This performance was, more often than not, a spellbinder.
—Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2017
Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
William Jennings Bryan, the evangelical spellbinder from Nebraska, argued in the 1896 presidential election that McKinley Republicans were the party of corporate power, corporate subsidies, and the gold standard.
—Brenda Wineapple, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
This performance was, more often than not, a spellbinder.
—Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spellbinder
Noun
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Conley is a rhetorician who researches how cultural influences shape our everyday habits, preferences, biases and desires, particularly in the area of food and taste.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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And, to be fair, inside the Fiserv Forum, the consummate rhetoricians were men of color—Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, Vivek Ramaswamy, and, the most fervent of all, Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor from Detroit.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
25 July 2024
Noun
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The power of an orator who can, in this way, fuse feeling and doctrine is immense.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Her father Walter was a prominent lawyer and orator.—
Shoshi Parks,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Six student teams from McDaniel College’s Entrepreneurship course, taught by adjunct lecturer in Economics and Business Administration Jonathan Pernell, competed for a $5,000 top prize by presenting their entrepreneurial ideas and innovative products to a panel of experts.—
Jeffrey F. Bill,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Apr. 2026
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Johnson has been traveling to South Florida for a week each month this semester as a visiting lecturer and co-teacher in a University of Miami political science class.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Spellbinder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spellbinder. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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