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Recent Examples of jeremiad Their jeremiads have scared so many people out of some amazing gains. Julie Coleman, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024 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
  • Arriving onstage hours late, Stone regaled the astonished crowd with a diatribe against Jerry Goldstein, his manager since the early ’90s.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 9 June 2025
  • Taylor Hill/Getty Images for Boston Calling What To Know Morello unleashed a diatribe against Trump during his performance at the Boston Calling music festival over the weekend, defending Springsteen after the latter drew the president's wrath recently.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • But once Hudson informed him that Gibson had already tossed him, Roberts unleashed the type of tirade that’s been rare during his 10-year managerial career.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
  • Even Meta, which folded its Libra stablecoin amidst a tirade of regulatory backlash, has considered re-entering the space.
    Christopher Perkins, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Preachers delivered sermons paying tribute to the fallen leader, which were then reprinted as pamphlets.
    Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
  • People would instead gather in churches to hear sermons focused on the holiday’s importance or host intimate house parties where community mobilization and progress were key topics of discussion.
    Martie Bowser, Forbes.com, 17 June 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
  • Iran, previously saying its nuclear program is solely for civilian purposes, has hit back with waves of missile attacks on Israel.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
  • Kernodle received a delivery less than 10 minutes before the attack, which happened just after 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2022.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Lander’s criticism of Israel is much more muted and that of a liberal Zionist.
    Steven W. Thrasher June 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • After Fox News announced Trump's hiring, criticism followed.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • In 2019, a national survey of OB-GYN, internal medicine and family practice residency programs revealed that 20% of graduating residents had received no lectures on menopause, and 6.8% felt unprepared to care for menopausal patients.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 20 June 2025
  • Posted on YouTube, the 7-minute video features comedian Martin Herlihy holding a lecture before a group of high school students, with the goal of teaching them how to convince their parents to buy them a Mac for college.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • However, Isaacs isn’t standing by Gibson’s actions, especially his infamous antisemitic rant in 2006 when being arrested for a DUI.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 June 2025
  • Gibson faced intense scrutiny and public outrage in the wake of his 2006 arrest for drunk driving and a subsequent antisemitic rant.
    Jen Juneau, People.com, 16 June 2025

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“Jeremiad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jeremiad. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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