as in speech
a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience
the celebrated orations of Daniel Webster in unwavering support of the federal union
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The most famous defense of democracy, the funeral oration of Pericles, is about the harmony of risk and freedom.
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Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
Students heard dueling orations that denounced the Nixon administration and Students for a Democratic Society.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 23 May 2024
On Saturday night inside a Beverly Hilton ballroom, Hanks introduces Davis with a rousing oration that thematically probes the breadth of the record mogul’s nearly 60 years in the industry.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
The words rush out, not in sentences, or even paragraphs, but as scrolling pages of oration, in which Scorsese expounds on history — cinematic, American, his own — with passion, professorial depth and a tempo set at Tommy gun.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
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“Oration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oration. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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