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backlash

[bak-lash] / ˈbækˌlæʃ /


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Crusoe, like other data-center firms, has done work to try to quell the growing backlash to AI data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

As first reported in the Financial Times, external, the bank is facing a growing backlash against the proposed rules change.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Kit Harington has faced backlash since joining HBO’s “Harry Potter” series amid ongoing calls to boycott author J.K.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

Though political opposites, they have landed on the same side of a fast-growing national backlash: a fight against government surveillance that has forged rare common ground in America.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Constitutional amendments guaranteeing African Americans “equal protection of the laws” and the right to vote proved as impotent as the Emancipation Proclamation once a white backlash against Reconstruction gained steam.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Several celebrities or influencers who have ventured into the crypto market have faced similar backlashes.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2024

There have been counterforces and backlashes and overcorrections, and then forward motion again—usually when the public is convinced that a change is only fair.

From Slate Nov. 3, 2024

By starting the exercise while most students were away on winter break, university leaders minimized the raucous backlashes that have bedeviled previous attempts by campus officials to take control of the park.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 6, 2024

This dovetails with my interest in the ways that status and hierarchies limit political change and fuel backlashes.

From New York Times May 12, 2023

Others, such as Boeing and the city of Seattle, have pushed ahead with mandatory back-to-office policies, but now face employee backlashes.

From Seattle Times Oct. 9, 2022




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