jeremiad
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of jeremiad
1770–80; Jeremi(ah) + -ad 1 in reference to Jeremiah's Lamentations
Example Sentences
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His underlying idea isn’t a jeremiad against AI as a whole, but that the market has detached from reality.
It is an odd sort of bubble where jeremiads abound decrying the risks posed by the huge surge in investment in artificial intelligence.
From Barron's
He was preening for the press, warming to another of his vicious, incoherent jeremiads when his Canadian host suggested he join the others in a bit of work.
From Salon
So much for the phony public jeremiads from Norman and his chief recruiter, Mickelson, about how LIV is some kind of liberation from PGA Tour oppression and is the future of the game.
From Washington Post
Matt Steinglass, reviewing it in The New York Times, called it a “brilliant, concise jeremiad.”
From New York Times
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