berate
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He added that once Arday had resigned, "What's the public interest in continuing to berate him?"
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
But the pop singer said she did not send a security guard to berate them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Lanning still recalls that early during his brief stint, he stepped in to run a drill, only for Saban to berate him for teaching it incorrectly to the watching players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
If you berate yourself for what you deem parenting mistakes, don’t let it eat away at you.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025
They laughed, tapped the tablecloth with their fingertips and began to tease, berate and adore him all at once.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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In one, a woman berates her husband for not voting.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
He also berates the street vendors and tells them that he is not giving them permission to record him while simultaneously filming them on a public street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
I have a co-worker whom I adore, but every holiday she berates me for not getting in the spirit: not wearing a Halloween costume, etc.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
The clip, released on Monday, shows three Israeli women, one of whom berates Mr Netanyahu and calls for the release of the hostages.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2023
First, she berates Carla, who as the oldest was in charge and had orders to stick with Manuel and Fifi as their in-car chaperone.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Judge Subramanian berated both sides for their failure to swiftly disclose the deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
But none of the other journalists in the Oval Office with Holmes spoke up as the president berated her.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Pelley accused CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the program and berated Bilton, a former New York Times journalist, for lacking TV news experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Brittin has faced scrutiny in the past, particularly over Google's tax affairs in 2016 when he was berated by members of the Public Accounts Committee.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
The master of the Dolphin berated them for wasting his time, and the owner of the Seventh Son accused them of being pirates.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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And he was angry, berating Kingsley for giving Cretton a hard time and proclaiming how much he wanted to be in this new movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Top of Wooden’s list was an insistence that Close could succeed without berating players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Then as now, Martin chose a polite but firm approach to Trump, who spent much of the question-and-answer session berating US allies for rebuffing his calls to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
Despite Egadze scoring only 154.79 for the free skate - 27 points lower than his season best - there was no berating.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
He was his own sarcophagus, a bold and infallible diplomat who was always berating himself disgustedly for all the chances he had missed and kicking himself regretfully for all the errors he had made.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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