diatribe
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Havelock re-encounters Jordan years after the attack and finds himself caught in the firehose spray of a diatribe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Hardy’s mic was shut off, and he was forcibly ejected from the hearing after his comments led to a rambling diatribe.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
Smith said his comments were directed at the Pelicans’ social media team, although he did not hesitate to point out the organization’s shortcomings during his diatribe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
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
Her mother told her not to worry and launched into a diatribe about the medical technologies of the seventies until Alma interrupted her.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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During the war, he baffled international negotiators with rambling diatribes on Serbian history.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
Critics point to his “word salad” diatribes and his misidentification of key players — for instance, saying it was former U.N.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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 confronted with the charge that, despite his position as vice president, he had paid Callender to write diatribes against the president, Jefferson claimed to know nothing about it.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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