rant
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And while I could rant about the division of labor and parenting when it comes to different-sex couples, I actually don’t think gender has anything to do with your problem.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Lalas, never timid about a brash, attention-seeking rant, riles up TV audiences in a way that makes Stephen A. Smith resemble Mr. Rogers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Rodrigo's as likely to reveal her ugly side – jealousy, obsession, self-destructive decision making – as she is to rant about her feckless exes.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
While others rant idealistically, Hackett keeps steering everything back to what will play with the affiliates and what the network can sell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
She let Papa rant a long time before she reacted.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
That tattoo and the social media posts -- which Platner explains respectively as the result of a misguided outing during his Marines days and dark post-combat rants -- highlighted the risk of running untested candidates.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
Guys: You can’t, immediately after the event, ask an American president to parse and consider the rants of his would-be killer, to chatter on about why someone would want to shoot him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Otherwise known as the Epstein files, this “library” is laden with crudity, eye-piercing typos, and rants about genetics.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2026
"Mine lets me post unhinged rants at 7am," replies another.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
He wants an audience while he rants at me.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
That included online messages in which she ranted about her in-laws as well as her estranged husband Simon Patterson, at one point calling him a "deadbeat".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Actor Ryan McCartan ranted on Instagram about poorly timed giggles during his performance in “The Great Gatsby.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Sometimes members of the audience would pass out while he tirelessly ranted about some arcane subject that mattered little, but he would draw applause nonetheless.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026
“That’s the whole meaning of life, isn’t it — trying to find a place for your stuff,” Carlin ranted.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025
She ranted, her mother said to her father.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
In the same week that the pair were ranting over historical “accuracy,” Michael Kratsios, the president’s science adviser, proposed overhauling the government’s approach to funding the sciences.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Kirchner came back inside the cottage, ranting about how he was fed up with the group’s democratic decision-making, and then left, members recalled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Think Alex Ferguson ranting about west-coast bias in the 1980s, multiply it by 10 and you're in the right territory.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
My bad behavior has consisted of begging a friend to delete it, not wild-eyed ranting, but still.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2025
She stopped to draw a deep breath and then went ranting on.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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