Debater
noun
A person who takes part in formal discussions or arguments.
She is a skilled debater who always knows her facts.
Often appears as...
- skilled debater
- strong debater
noun
A person who takes part in formal discussions or arguments.
She is a skilled debater who always knows her facts.
Often appears as...
- skilled debater
- strong debater
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Pro Tip 1/3Formal Contexts
Used mainly in contexts such as competitions, academic settings, or legislative assemblies.
He became a formidable debater in the university's debate club.
Pro Tip 2/3Prepared Arguments
Implies the person has researched and prepared their points in advance.
As a debater, she had spent weeks preparing for the national competition.
Pro Tip 3/3Persuasion Skills
Reflects a person's capability to convincingly present and argue ideas.
The topic was difficult, but the debater's eloquence won the audience over.
Pro Tip 1/3Formal Contexts
Used mainly in contexts such as competitions, academic settings, or legislative assemblies.
He became a formidable debater in the university's debate club.
Pro Tip 2/3Prepared Arguments
Implies the person has researched and prepared their points in advance.
As a debater, she had spent weeks preparing for the national competition.
Pro Tip 3/3Persuasion Skills
Reflects a person's capability to convincingly present and argue ideas.
The topic was difficult, but the debater's eloquence won the audience over.
Pro Tip 1/3Formal Contexts
Used mainly in contexts such as competitions, academic settings, or legislative assemblies.
He became a formidable debater in the university's debate club.
Pro Tip 2/3Prepared Arguments
Implies the person has researched and prepared their points in advance.
As a debater, she had spent weeks preparing for the national competition.
Pro Tip 3/3Persuasion Skills
Reflects a person's capability to convincingly present and argue ideas.
The topic was difficult, but the debater's eloquence won the audience over.
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How to disagree...
from the identity of the person discussing them. So in formal debate, nothing is a topic unless it is that we should raise the voting age, outlaw gambling. But the debaters don't choose their sides.
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How to disagree...
from the identity of the person discussing them. So in formal debate, nothing is a topic unless it is that we should raise the voting age, outlaw gambling. But the debaters don't choose their sides.
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Alex Pareene
American Writer
Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.
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Morgan Neville
American Producer
Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a political movement, and was a master debater. They were multihyphenates in a way that you rarely see anymore.
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Bob Beckel
American Journalist
On the road to the GOP nomination, Trump earned the reputation as a good debater by slandering and bullying his opponents, knocking them out with cheap shots and lies. On a crowded stage, Trump got away with these deplorable tactics.
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Edmund White
American Novelist
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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Ruzwana Bashir
British Businesswoman
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.
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James Carville
American Lawyer
The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.
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Ron Fournier
American Journalist
Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.
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Corey Lewandowski
American
Donald Trump is the best debater on the debate stage.
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Jim Talent
American Politician
Governor Romney is a good debater.
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Jack Kemp
American Politician
I wasn't a great debater.
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Alex Pareene
American Writer
Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.
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Morgan Neville
American Producer
Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a political movement, and was a master debater. They were multihyphenates in a way that you rarely see anymore.
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Bob Beckel
American Journalist
On the road to the GOP nomination, Trump earned the reputation as a good debater by slandering and bullying his opponents, knocking them out with cheap shots and lies. On a crowded stage, Trump got away with these deplorable tactics.
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Edmund White
American Novelist
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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Ruzwana Bashir
British Businesswoman
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.
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James Carville
American Lawyer
The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.
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Ron Fournier
American Journalist
Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.
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Corey Lewandowski
American
Donald Trump is the best debater on the debate stage.
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Jim Talent
American Politician
Governor Romney is a good debater.
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Jack Kemp
American Politician
I wasn't a great debater.
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