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had ranted
  • past perfect of rant.

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I had ranted to my friends and family like a maniac as quarantine approached.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2020

Earlier on Saturday Nastase had ranted at a British journalist, Eleanor Crooks, for two or three minutes while she was in the media centre.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2017

A person at his table had ranted savagely about my husband’s career as an artist and a “bloodbath” he took at a recent auction.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2011

In the committee rooms, where Molotov, Gromyko, Malik had ranted and been answered by the champions of the free world, a rearguard of U.N. staffers stuffed their briefcases with forgotten oddments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jackson had ranted wildly against the despatch of abolition literature through the mails.

From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin