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lambaste

[lam-beyst, -bast] / læmˈbeɪst, -ˈbæst /


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It’s one thing for Mamdani supporters to imbibe “eat the rich” rhetoric, it’s another to lambaste small-time shopkeepers as greedy exploiters when they are the backbone of neighborhood food provision and cultural cohesion.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

But after hearing, over the course of the docuseries, British broadcasters lambaste Victoria about everything from her weight to her naivety, it feels like she’s earned it.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2025

Gaetz, as a man, appears to be widely detested by his former colleagues, given the number willing to publicly lambaste him.

From Salon Nov. 14, 2024

No—Ackman’s saved his invective to lambaste perceived wrongdoings at Harvard, instead.

From Slate Dec. 14, 2023

Sounds fishy—but if it's so somebody ought to lambaste the old man.

From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland

Schwab’s recent correspondence lambasts the Forum’s board for deploying money and using advisers to diminish his legacy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

In his 1989 journal article "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine," Berry lambasts the era's burgeoning tech revolution with jarring prescience:

From Salon Jun. 18, 2023

JJ, for instance, lambasts his dad for committing “human rights violations” and the senior Shaft complains about his son’s taste for exposed brick and coconut water.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2019

No punishment for Hearts, says SPL Brown focuses on Division One future Brown to continue as Dundee boss Brown lambasts penalty decision 43.

From BBC May 21, 2013

Williams lambasts local authorities for placing children out of their local area.

From The Guardian Nov. 29, 2012

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile over the Sea of Japan on Thursday, Seoul's military said, with the launch coming after Pyongyang lambasted Japan's military build-up in the Pacific.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

It was then that Tuchel may well have given the game away when he heaped praise on England's mentality but lambasted their lack of quality.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Some customers have lambasted the bots on social media, while others prefer them to a garbled voice squawking from a speaker box.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

In 2011, Acuña was one of many authors who saw their works lambasted by then-Arizona Atty.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 24, 2026

He everlastin’ly lambasted them keys, and knocked the lights plumb outen that pore instrument.

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates

Instead, Pelley interrupted Bilton early in his remarks, questioning the producer’s qualifications and lambasting Weiss’s leadership decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

He has been an outspoken Fed critic, lambasting everything from the central bank's heavy reliance on data to its use of assets on its balance sheet.

From BBC Jan. 30, 2026

Houston coach Ime Udoka was fined $25,000 by the NBA earlier this week after lambasting the officiating in the Rockets' 128-125 defeat to Denver on Monday.

From Barron's Dec. 21, 2025

But it seemed to inspire others: several influential acts subsequently left the service, lambasting Ek for investing his personal fortune into an AI weapons firm.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2025

Among the letters lambasting McCandless, virtually all those I received mentioned his misidentification of the caribou as proof that he didn’t know the first thing about surviving in the back- country.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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