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jeremiad

[jer-uh-mahy-uhd, -ad] / ˌdʒɛr əˈmaɪ əd, -æd /


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His underlying idea isn’t a jeremiad against AI as a whole, but that the market has detached from reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

I don’t intend this column to be either a jeremiad or a lambasting of marijuana.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024

But the HBO show is a savage jeremiad, inspiring sympathy for its characters only insofar as they’re prisoners of familial pathology.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2022

After this jeremiad for a nation in crisis, one wonders how Osnos can possibly suggest a way out.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021

She could not prevent a feeling of exasperation, especially toward Mrs. Frazer, who had moved from chair to chair, uttering words of self-pity, and pronouncing a constant jeremiad….

From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington




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