as in rants
a long angry speech or scolding
after the inspection by the health department, we had to listen to the manager's tirade about keeping the restaurant's kitchen cleaner
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Recent Examples of tirades
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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Brody Miller,
New York Times,
19 June 2026
Lion was taken into custody early Saturday morning in the Palisades after what a neighbor described as antisemitic tirades.
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Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Rambling usually ignores it when Dean Cain posts one of his tirades against liberal Hollywood.
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Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
And baseball has just tirades and just screaming at each other in the middle.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
The film explores how comedians parody leaders and help define them to the public, an important conversation currently amid presidential tirades against late night hosts, and after The Late Show With Stephen Colbert closed up shop last month.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 June 2026
The Onion has long delighted readers with a mix of highbrow and stupidly silly news stories that parody the latest social trends and political tirades, highlighting their absurdity—and deeper truths.
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Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2026
Indeed, Ye has been something of an outcast in the mainstream entertainment industry since a series of antisemitic and racist tirades in 2022, culminating in the release of a swastika T-shirt via his Yeezy brand.
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Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2026
Of course, at the heart of it was the man himself, a deeply polarizing music icon whose years-long tirades against everyone from Jewish people to his peers tainted a legacy that once seemed unimpeachable.
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Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2026
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
19 June 2026
Lion was taken into custody early Saturday morning in the Palisades after what a neighbor described as antisemitic tirades.
—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Rambling usually ignores it when Dean Cain posts one of his tirades against liberal Hollywood.
—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
And baseball has just tirades and just screaming at each other in the middle.
—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
The film explores how comedians parody leaders and help define them to the public, an important conversation currently amid presidential tirades against late night hosts, and after The Late Show With Stephen Colbert closed up shop last month.
—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 June 2026
The Onion has long delighted readers with a mix of highbrow and stupidly silly news stories that parody the latest social trends and political tirades, highlighting their absurdity—and deeper truths.
—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2026
Indeed, Ye has been something of an outcast in the mainstream entertainment industry since a series of antisemitic and racist tirades in 2022, culminating in the release of a swastika T-shirt via his Yeezy brand.
—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2026
Of course, at the heart of it was the man himself, a deeply polarizing music icon whose years-long tirades against everyone from Jewish people to his peers tainted a legacy that once seemed unimpeachable.
—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tirades
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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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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.
Noun
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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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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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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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