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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

This year, another type of explosion is preoccupying me — not the grand orations of our Founding Fathers but Frederick Douglass’ 1852 jeremiad, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2021

Our author shows no enthusiasm for his subject here, and ends by ascribing the whole jeremiad to Lacaille, a man of very great practical perseverance.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert




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