How to Use speechwriter in a Sentence

speechwriter

noun
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  • She is the President's principal speechwriter.
  • Maybe spend a few bucks to hire a speechwriter and then stick to the script.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2018
  • And that, by the way, gives you more confidence in the role of speechwriters.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Her speechwriter talks about how the iconic speech came to be.
    — smithsonianmag.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Keeping an open mind, the speechwriter asks to see both.
    — Douglas Brinkley, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • Young Joe should get a new makeup artist and maybe a new speechwriter as well.
    — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Ryan, then 23, was hired as a researcher and speechwriter.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Sorensen had been in his position as a speechwriter for less than a year.
    — Kristen Welker, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The sentence had been drafted by a speechwriter with his feet on the ground, unaware the eyes of his president were on the skies.
    — David Shribman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
  • Each campaign has a team of speechwriters and social media mavens who won’t be much help on stage at the live event.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
  • Cody Keenan, our chief speechwriter and a die-hard Chicago sports fan, offered me an out.
    — Stephen Krupin, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • One, David Sorensen, was a speechwriter; another, Rob Porter, a top aide.
    — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 11 Feb. 2018
  • There was now an easy grace, a strength that was unafraid of softness,’’ the speechwriter Richard Goodwin, who died late last month, wrote in a 1988 account.
    — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2018
  • Goodwin now had a hot hand, and Johnson sought to bring him to the White House as his domestic affairs speechwriter.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Former speechwriter Reid Lidow failed to make the runoff in his bid for city controller.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
  • However, a good speechwriter does far more than write something like what the leader would have said.
    — David Murray, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Stephanie is married to Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, and their two children are the same ages as Psaki’s.
    — Lizzie Widdicombe, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Here is a tweet from former Obama speechwriter, Jon Favreau.
    — Fox News, 3 June 2018
  • In 2016, the company also brought on David Litt, one of Obama's speechwriters.
    — Saba Hamedy, CNN, 27 May 2018
  • Kaufman lost his job while shooting the film and Carter would later be exposed as a fraud — a former member of the Klan and a speechwriter for George Wallace.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Kaufman lost his job while shooting the film and Carter would later be exposed as a fraud — a former member of the Klan and a speechwriter for George Wallace.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Standing up to deliver a speech that some marvelous speechwriter wrote to counter the lack of verbal acuity the night before does not turn this around for me.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
  • Shin Dong-ho, a student activist and poet, is Mr. Moon’s speechwriter.
    — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • All sorts of people called to talk to the speechwriters with all sorts of whacky suggestions; this certainly had to be the most interesting.
    — Eric B. Schnurer, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Former Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau says not so much.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Bill Moyers has asked an array of luminaries to play speechwriter for tonight's State of the Union Address.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2013
  • The idea that Donald Trump should listen to some speechwriter rather than his own political instincts seems crazy to me.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 19 June 2019
  • The speechwriter who penned that line must have cut class on a day when an important lecture in Economics 101 was given.
    — WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • New speechwriter Will Bailey grills the president over his stance on the atrocities, leading to one of the most important moral and political decisions of Bartlet’s career.
    — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Although many former advisers have fallen out of favor, Stephen Miller, who was a senior adviser and chief speechwriter during Trump’s presidency, has been a consistent influence inside Trump’s circle for years.
    — Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2024

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