derided
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And that is exactly what makes Tanden’s transformation into one of the country’s most widely derided Twitter pundits so bizarre.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Retail investors have long been derided as “dumb money” for their supposed tendency to chase rallies or panic-sell when stocks fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Mellencamp once derided his albums from the ’90s as “paint-by-numbers” affairs that he only made because he couldn’t get out of his record deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Three Lions, the song written by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and the Lightning Seeds for Euro 96, has long been derided outside of England for its supposed arrogance.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Everything was custom engineered—“no hand-me-down magnets, no industrial discards . . . ‘no patch work,’ ” as the Joliots’ emissary Maurice Nahmias had derided the old standards.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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