trash-talkers

plural of trash-talker

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Noun
  • Each regime, from the Pahlavi dynasty to the Islamic Republic, claimed to uphold human rights and castigated its predecessors as torturers, only to ratchet up the incarceration of political opponents.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Moshkovich has denied the charges and no one seems to know who among his detractors was behind his detention.
    ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Deen also takes several swipes at her former detractors in the project, including fellow foodie and CNN travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018.
    Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brown-Trickey was eventually suspended for standing up to her tormentors, while her white aggressors went unpunished.
    Time, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Republicans have been plagued by raucous town halls for months, with hecklers usually targeting cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency or cuts made through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Using it to describe this week’s attack on Huwara – or other similar attacks in Israel or Palestine – effectively puts Israel in the place of the Jews’ historic persecutors.
    Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
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