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Recent Examples of jeremiad Hay dashed off another jeremiad to their associates. Kate Knibbs, Wired News, 20 May 2025 The jeremiads against gambling as a corrupting influence have conveniently quieted. Made By History, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025 Their jeremiads have scared so many people out of some amazing gains. Julie Coleman, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024 Tocqueville rose in the assembly on January 29, 1848, to deliver a jeremiad. Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 26 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for jeremiad
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Noun
  • The individuals are not silenced, as Charlie Kirk was permanently, but can continue their diatribe, just maybe not while with organizations that find their comments out of place.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And the show felt more like a dialogue than a diatribe.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her tirade is a window into the mentality of radical CA Democrat politicians.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Nagy, normally upbeat and composed, had gone on an all-time tirade.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The presiding minister elected not to deliver a funeral sermon; dirt was shoveled on top of the mahogany box only three minutes after the service began.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Adapted from his own novel Cabal, Barker brings so much creativity and personality to this story that could easily have become a more didactic sermon about otherness.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How not to hear in his philippic the traces of an OCD inscribed in our cultural DNA, a sanctimony that launched the archetypal act of avoidance that forms our origin myth?
    Andrew Kay, Harpers Magazine, 28 May 2025
  • The poet’s occasional philippics against capitalist excess are hard to distinguish from postwar politics, when former allies became lethal enemies, while in America the Red Scare of McCarthyism loomed.
    William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement An investigation led by the Guardian found in September that out of the 6,000 Palestinians from Gaza held by Israel since the Hamas terror attack two years ago, only one quarter were held on suspicion of militant links.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This was the worst one-day attack on Israel since the country's founding in 1948.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s administration was right to send an emissary after ICE’s Hyundai raid to express regret and negotiate a new business visa process for South Koreans, despite criticism from the more anti-immigrant MAGA base.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Rimes has described experiencing cycles of praise and harsh criticism — both as a child star and during her affair with Cibrian.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Barcelona delegate, as portrayed by an overly ceceando Mikey Day, suggested skipping the tiresome lecture, only to be taken off camera to be beheaded.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Goodall’s speaking tours brought her to Miami on many occasions, including an April 2023 lecture at Florida International University’s Ocean Bank Convocation Center and, a decade earlier, to the University of Miami’s BankUnited Center (now Watsco Center) in April 2013.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a brilliant scene in which Linda unspools a throwdown rant at O’Brien’s character, begging him to help her but not willing to meet him halfway on the patient’s couch.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Scuderia Ferrari Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton has reportedly responded to Fernando Alonso's Singapore Grand Prix rant through a funny video, trolling the two-time world champion and reminding fans about their rivalry.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Jeremiad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jeremiad. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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