as in tirades
a long angry speech or scolding
after complaining about the hotel's lousy service, the woman went off on another rant about the condition of her room
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as in huffs
to talk loudly and wildly
when the waiter gave him incorrect change, he began ranting about the restaurant's poor service
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Recent Examples of rants
Gary Franks,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2026
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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Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
25 June 2026
Scottie Scheffler has become increasingly known for petulant rants.
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Brody Miller,
New York Times,
19 June 2026
Across demographics, though, teens are reporting difficult job searches, taking to Reddit and TikTok with rants about phantom postings, managers who ghost them and applications that go nowhere.
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ABC News,
18 June 2026
One of my recent rants has been noting the trend of strong defense and non-Hall of Fame quarterbacks among recent Super Bowl teams.
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Chris Perkins,
Sun Sentinel,
15 June 2026
His online rants were becoming increasingly extreme.
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Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
After the last couple shows, I’ve been flooded with messages from fans that were upset by her rants.
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Jack Dunn,
Variety,
31 May 2026
Grievances Tucked into the many pages of hateful rants and ideology in the manifesto the teens apparently co-authored are threads of personal grievances.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 May 2026
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
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Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
Mention of women has also not been absent in the president’s disrespectful rants.
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Gary Franks,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2026
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.
—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
25 June 2026
Scottie Scheffler has become increasingly known for petulant rants.
—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
19 June 2026
Across demographics, though, teens are reporting difficult job searches, taking to Reddit and TikTok with rants about phantom postings, managers who ghost them and applications that go nowhere.
—
ABC News,
18 June 2026
One of my recent rants has been noting the trend of strong defense and non-Hall of Fame quarterbacks among recent Super Bowl teams.
—
Chris Perkins,
Sun Sentinel,
15 June 2026
His online rants were becoming increasingly extreme.
—
Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
After the last couple shows, I’ve been flooded with messages from fans that were upset by her rants.
—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
31 May 2026
Grievances Tucked into the many pages of hateful rants and ideology in the manifesto the teens apparently co-authored are threads of personal grievances.
—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 May 2026
Verb
And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rants
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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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Amazon has deals on the exact brands the multi-hyphenate wears and raves about, plus pieces pulled straight from her playbook (cough, her Instagram, cough).
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Everyone around the Wolverines raves about the intensity and effort that Johnson brought to the court every day.
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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The British Army also provided protection from attacks by Native American tribes, giving many settlers little reason to support a rebellion.
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Twice in recent days, the United States has launched retaliatory strikes on Iran following drone attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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There have been criticisms over the division of a 90-minute match into essentially four quarters rather than two halves (with hydration breaks inserted around the 22nd and 67th minutes of every game).
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As this World Cup continues to play out, the criticisms, fears and concerns about the home of the New York Giants and New York Jets have all been realized to an international audience.
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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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