diatribe
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Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
"I am aware of the diatribe the commentator directed towards the Israeli bobsled team on the Swiss Olympic broadcast today," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
Altman was about to launch into a diatribe about the commercials that Anthropic, the maker of ChatGPT competitor Claude, rolled out for the Super Bowl.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2026
Staying close to her family in the Mediterranean city of Tartus during the Covid-19 pandemic, she sent him a voice message, playing back a piece of his diatribe that had been secretly recorded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
My intense devotion to the cause of justice has led to this lengthy diatribe, and 1 feel that my Levy circle-within-a- circle is zooming upward to new successes and heights.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Kim, who worked on Bass’ 2022 campaign, took aim not just at Caruso but also billionaire Elon Musk, who has posted diatribes against the mayor on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
Others, such as Shawn Michaels, say there's not much difference between the two, and WWE executive Bruce Prichard says Mr McMahon's in-ring diatribes were similar to the ones he'd deliver in the board room.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024
Her works achieve the difficult feat of synthesizing a coma-inducing dullness with piercingly shrill extended diatribes to create reverse masterpieces worthy of the most risible North Korean propaganda.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024
When he was questioned by the state lawyers who are suing him, he often responded with lengthy diatribes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
Several long, incoherent diatribes from gunters whose quest for the egg had clearly driven them insane.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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