: a person who writes speeches (as for a politician)
Example Sentences
She is the President's principal speechwriter.
Recent Examples on the WebNeufer will recur as Mary Johnson, an ambitious speechwriter, loyal friend to Tim (Bailey), associate of Hawk (Bomer) in the State Department, and in a risky relationship with another woman. Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 July 2022 This second question comes from former Bush speechwriter David Frum at DefenseOne. Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 23 Aug. 2021 Gottheimer, who served as a White House speechwriter during Clinton’s second term, exclaimed.New York Times, 29 June 2022 Former speechwriter Reid Lidow failed to make the runoff in his bid for city controller. David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022 Keeping an open mind, the speechwriter asks to see both. Douglas Brinkley, Washington Post, 3 June 2022 Entangled with these riveting accounts is the history and anatomy of the political speech as a genre and of professional speechwriting and its peculiar self-effacing power: the speechwriter as witness to and author of great events. Priya Satia, The New Republic, 20 May 2022 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 Bacchus was a reporter for the Sanford Herald from 1964 to 1968, a reporter and columnist in Florida and Washington, D.C. for the Orlando Sentinel from 1968 to 1973, and a spokesman and speechwriter for Gov. Reubin Askew from 1974 to 1976. Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2022 See More