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present participle of berate

berating

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noun

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Recent Examples of berating
Noun
After the report, an aide to Marte, Steven Wong, sent the journalist voice messages berating her with misogynistic slurs. Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2025 Cut to Alex, desperately tending to her dwindling fire while berating God for letting her experience love, only to rip it away from her. Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ex-husband has apologized for berating three Muslim women in Georgia days after a video of the incident went viral. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025 After berating Beijing for its restrictions, Washington is putting up the same barriers. Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2025 Don’t compound your child’s guilt and discomfort by berating them for their scratching. Andy Collinson, Health, 19 Mar. 2025 But after a week of berating the national retailers, Berry Chantilly lovers forced Whole Foods to listen to their requests. Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025 The actor makes the most of the material served to him on a silver platter, like berating Bart for his history of domestic violence or hallucinating his way through an infected gunshot wound. Alison Herman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025 Maron could be a reluctant subject, at times berating Feinartz off camera for relentlessly filming him over multiple years. Adam B. Vary, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for berating
Noun
  • Amster has to return $10,000 to Diaz’s mother, attend ethics school and will receive a public reprimand.
    David J. Neal July 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
  • Nelson received a reprimand from the city’s ethics board in April for impeding the investigation, and the City Council passed resolutions last summer limiting his ceremonial powers.
    Aaron Sullivan, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Patrick’s statement is an extraordinary public rebuke of French, who has made many inflammatory comments on social media — most of them without political consequence — since the county’s Republican Party elected him chair in fall 2023.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
  • After Trump’s rebukes, Gabbard updated her analysis to align with the president’s.
    Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • However, May argued that Trump’s recent public lashings out against Putin appear to be more lasting than those against Zelensky, signaling a wider shift in policy.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 May 2025
  • Will slaves not plow the earth beneath the lashing of their masters in these wastelands of man’s primordial independence?
    Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • While most have become accustomed and perhaps even oblivious to McGregor’s online rants, openly criticizing a business partner is a little dicey.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Shiney-Ajay said Harris should have spent additional time criticizing lawmakers—like Manchin and Congressional Republicans—who limited the administration's climate goals, using it as a chance to emphasize her intent to seek greater climate victories in the future.
    Alex J. Rouhandeh, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In the appeal to you, gentle readers, to email us with your thoughts, questions, reproofs, corrections, jokes, recipes, etc.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 9 May 2025
  • Advertisement China’s Foreign Ministry also issued a vehement reproof.
    Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Habba’s involvement has drawn criticism from Democrats, who accuse the Trump administration of politicizing federal prosecutions.
    Essence, Essence, 26 June 2025
  • Outreach to the Jewish community Mamdani has faced some pushback, given New York's large Jewish population, over his history of comments and activism opposing Israel, including his criticism of Israel over the war in Gaza.
    Rachel Scott, ABC News, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Douglas McCarthy, the vocalist who hectored anarchic invective with EBM innovators Nitzer Ebb and who joined Depeche Mode keyboardist Alan Wilder’s Recoil side project, died Wednesday at the age of 58.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2025
  • His tommy-gun dialogue, much of it laced with withering invective and punctuated with profanity, started a shift in the language of both theater and movies in this country.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the far-western Lviv region, a large fire broke out at an industrial facility in the city of Drohobych after a drone attack that also cut electricity to parts of the city.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025
  • Videos posted on Telegram show a large fire near Kremenchuk after the attack.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 29 June 2025

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“Berating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/berating. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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