furor

The international furor over Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests and briefly mainstreamed the Movement for Black Lives.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

The resulting furor reached the level that “Saturday Night Live” felt the need to chime in over the weekend, pointing out that Chalamet was lobbing stones from inside a glass house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

The same anger over lost oil wealth and a monarch in the pocket of foreign interests boiled over again in the 1970s, this time driven by religious furor from the charismatic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

For those who have blessedly forgotten the furor from last fall, in late September the NFL announced that Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican rapper, would headline the official program.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

For months he had moved along the edge of the furor that raged among the adults of his family, of the neighborhood, and even of the church.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Nine of the 12 furors further found that both companies had acted with malice, oppression or fraud, a finding that set the stage for the separate punitive damages.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Unlike memorable judging furors from the 1990s and 2000s, this time there was social media for angry fans to dissect videos and zoom in on every potential misstep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Maybe that can take some of the the oxygen out of future furors over who gets to play whom unless the choice is truly egregious.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023

Even comics without star power who have set off furors, like Sam Morril and Kurt Metzger, are doing fine.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2015

Their chosen speakers lashed them into fresh furors of patriotism while they waited.

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore