as in attacks
a long angry speech or scolding
the head coach was briefly suspended after launching into a foul-mouthed philippic during a press conference
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The Kerch road and rail crossing, opened by Putin in 2018, has been the target of previous Ukrainian attacks.
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The first is Kryla, a compact cruise missile carrying a 50-kilogram warhead designed for saturation attacks.
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That, of course, was shown at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where the Jabulani grabbed headlines for its erratic and unpredictable movement — so much so that there’s a Wikipedia page dedicated to its criticisms.
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Former school board member Melissa Easley echoed many of those criticisms in a lengthy Facebook post Wednesday.
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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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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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Trump’s social media feed and rhetoric overflow with racist diatribes.
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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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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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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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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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“Philippics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/philippics. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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