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Keynote figure (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

orator

(Other definitions for orator that I've seen before include "A fluent public speaker" , "A Rhetorical talker or speech-maker" , "Rhetorician" , "Eloquent public speaker" , "I declaim" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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