as in rants
a long angry speech or scolding
he was forced to sit through a long diatribe after he came home late once too often
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Recent Examples of diatribes
Trump’s social media feed and rhetoric overflow with racist diatribes.
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Laura Washington,
Mercury News,
9 June 2026
Academics in particular knew the impact of his anti-college diatribes, demonizing of university professors, and literal targeting of them with Professor Watchlist.
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Karen J. Leader,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
But the diatribes have generally been assumed to be her own, not sponsored content.
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Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
But of course, the serenity of a slow-motion unfolding of the day inevitably devolves into the annual discussions, debates and diatribes dedicated to the food of the day.
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Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
Other fits have been hateful, veering into racist and antisemitic diatribes.
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Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
Charles Coughlin, an antisemitic Catholic priest who once led the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak and broadcast diatribes against Jews on a radio show.
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Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Laura Washington,
Mercury News,
9 June 2026
Academics in particular knew the impact of his anti-college diatribes, demonizing of university professors, and literal targeting of them with Professor Watchlist.
—
Karen J. Leader,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
But the diatribes have generally been assumed to be her own, not sponsored content.
—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
But of course, the serenity of a slow-motion unfolding of the day inevitably devolves into the annual discussions, debates and diatribes dedicated to the food of the day.
—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
Other fits have been hateful, veering into racist and antisemitic diatribes.
—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
Charles Coughlin, an antisemitic Catholic priest who once led the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak and broadcast diatribes against Jews on a radio show.
—
Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diatribes
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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Scottie Scheffler has become increasingly known for petulant rants.
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Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee once put it this way about why some golfer tirades add character while others are despised.
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Lion was taken into custody early Saturday morning in the Palisades after what a neighbor described as antisemitic tirades.
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Financial transactions, credential sharing, file sharing, executive instructions and vendor relationships are at risk due to AI attacks.
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Two people were killed and seven others injured in Russian attacks on the northeastern Kharkiv region over the previous 24 hours, regional head Oleh Syniehubov said Friday.
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The question, of course, is what we are supposed to do with these bourgeois jeremiads against bourgeois civilization, beyond enjoying them as high-end primal-scream therapy.
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Dani provides the voiceover, filled with strained metaphors about earthquakes and sermons on the importance of summer, but the pretense that the dialogue is taken from his interrogation is quickly abandoned.
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The fracas played out in heated sermons, editorials, and denominational meetings.
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Stephen Adly Guirgis, a New York playwright who specializes in urban pressure-cooker dramas, has a gift for writing subway strap-hanger harangues.
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The negative shift in 'cynicism's' meaning is largely attributed to the historical lens of Plato's criticisms, as Antisthenes' own writings are scarce.
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But advocates for survivors say there’s ample evidence of failures at high levels, even beyond Guidepost's criticisms of the Executive Committee.
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“Diatribes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diatribes. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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