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“In June, there was haranguing of Cathy Darling Allen, and we’re hoping to stand here and make sure that doesn’t happen again,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2022

I was at the Latitude festival last weekend, and passed the comedy tent just as a standup was haranguing his audience for being so terribly middle-class.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2010

In a vacant store, a faker was haranguing a crowd, selling a book.

From Time Magazine Archive

In New Haven, she was haranguing a luncheon gathering on the implications of the Watergate bugging and burglary.

From Time Magazine Archive

On a scarlet- draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large, bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd.

From "1984" by George Orwell