lambaste
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It’s one thing for Mamdani supporters to imbibe “eat the rich” rhetoric, it’s another to lambaste small-time shopkeepers as greedy exploiters when they are the backbone of neighborhood food provision and cultural cohesion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Gaetz, as a man, appears to be widely detested by his former colleagues, given the number willing to publicly lambaste him.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
I arranged the interview because I wanted to check in on a politician I’ve been friendly with for years yet didn’t hesitate to lambaste after her accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
No—Ackman’s saved his invective to lambaste perceived wrongdoings at Harvard, instead.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
"Jake, you can lambaste me if I ever saw the likes," replied Anderson.
From The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey
Schwab’s recent correspondence lambasts the Forum’s board for deploying money and using advisers to diminish his legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In his 1989 journal article "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine," Berry lambasts the era's burgeoning tech revolution with jarring prescience:
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
Jamil often lambasts or reframes the negative narratives that articles perpetuate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2020
Related: Jeb Bush lambasts both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump Ron Michaels, a retired General Motors employee, said Bush stood out as having “a steady hand on the wheel”.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2015
No punishment for Hearts, says SPL Brown focuses on Division One future Brown to continue as Dundee boss Brown lambasts penalty decision 43.
From BBC ● May 21, 2013
It was then that Tuchel may well have given the game away when he heaped praise on England's mentality but lambasted their lack of quality.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
David spoke about the outrageous audition process for “Curb,” wherein actors tried to navigate a brief written scenario without any dialogue to guide them as David lambasted them in character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
In 2019, he publicly lambasted authorities for their handling of the pro-democracy protests.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
He has drawn allegations of corruption—which he has denied—and been lambasted for allegedly amassing personal wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
He everlastin’ly lambasted them keys, and knocked the lights plumb outen that pore instrument.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates
Pelley’s dismissal came Tuesday, one day after a staff meeting in which the correspondent interrupted Bilton’s remarks, questioning the new boss’s qualifications and lambasting Weiss’s leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
"On the way out, some of the prisoners came out of their cells and started lambasting the away side for losing the game," Tony says.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Houston coach Ime Udoka was fined $25,000 by the NBA earlier this week after lambasting the officiating in the Rockets' 128-125 defeat to Denver on Monday.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
But it seemed to inspire others: several influential acts subsequently left the service, lambasting Ek for investing his personal fortune into an AI weapons firm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
Among the letters lambasting McCandless, virtually all those I received mentioned his misidentification of the caribou as proof that he didn’t know the first thing about surviving in the back- country.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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