as in tirade
a long angry speech or scolding
he was forced to sit through a long diatribe after he came home late once too often
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Recent Examples of diatribe
Putting Sir Porritt’s diatribe aside, its essence seems straightforward and sensible to me.
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Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
The vehicle’s exterior is plastered with laminated prints of his poetry, manifestos, and diatribes against cell phones and pesticides.
—Evan Malmgren, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2024
New York’s mythology is full of artist collectives, those ragtag groups of poets, painters, musicians, or actors, gathered in some grand, decaying ballroom, deeply engrossed in dialogues and diatribes on life and living.
—Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
The vice president came across to her as commanding and compassionate and so unnerved Donald Trump that his false diatribe involving immigrants in Ohio dining on cats and dogs became the highlight reel for much of America.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
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Her latest tirade was set off by the decision by House members allied with Mr. Romualdez and Mr. Marcos to detain her chief of staff, Zuleika Lopez, who was accused of hampering a congressional inquiry into the possible misuse of her budget as vice president and education secretary.Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2024
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Her latest tirade was set off by the decision by House members allied with Romualdez and Marcos to detain her chief of staff, Zuleika Lopez, who was accused of hampering a congressional inquiry into the possible misuse of her budget as vice president and Education secretary.Jim Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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For the most part, Israel’s response to Hamas’s devastating October 7 attack was confined to the Gaza Strip.Carrie A. Lee, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
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Episodes often feature logistically complex armed attacks, guided from afar by the top brass, played by the likes of Kidman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Kelly, Jennifer Ehle, and Bruce McGill.Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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Their jeremiads have scared so many people out of some amazing gains.Julie Coleman, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
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Occasionally, these jeremiads leak into mainstream culture and the mass media begin to reverberate with a warning: Change your ways, Americans, or there will be hell to pay.James Morone, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
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Tom Hanks went after critics in a big rant following the release of his critical and box office bomb Here.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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Then in the second episode, having behaved like a cad to Isabella for 20-ish minutes, Bobbie goes off on a rant.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
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The Northwest Indiana congressman, the frontrunner in Indiana’s open U.S. Senate race, declined invitations from the Debate Commission, which has drawn criticism from his opponents.Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2024
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As the conflict in Gaza has dragged on, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced criticism internationally and domestically for what critics say is his prioritization of keeping together his fractious hard-right and religious coalition government — and his job — over a ceasefire deal.David Hodari, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
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Slate says that, in 1905, an issue of The Cambrian, a magazine for Welsh Americans, featured an anecdote involving a priest who, following a service, pulled a clerk aside to ask whether his sermon had been long enough.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Stanley addressed Mohler near the beginning of his sermon.John Blake, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
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But Sir Ridley Scott does not want to deliver a connect-the-dots lecture.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
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In his lecture, Goldberg gives the example of a robot pushing a bottle across a table.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024
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More remarkably, Murphy appeals to white audiences while doing routines that border on anti-white harangues.Chet Flippo, Vulture, 3 July 2024
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People with competing views talk past one another or, worse, as has been happening on campuses, especially since last October, harangue, harass, and silence each other.Lincoln Caplan, The New Yorker, 4 July 2024
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“Diatribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diatribe. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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