backlash
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“I don’t think I’ve ever seen something intensify this quickly,” Gregory Ferenstein, who conducted a recent poll with researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, said of the backlash.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
The company earlier this year suffered backlash against a new lineup of pants deemed by some consumers to be see-through.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
Schmidt is not alone in drawing backlash over the issue.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Nereyda said this year hasn’t been as bad as a year ago when Hernandez was first thrust into a national anti-trans backlash.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
The board would fear a backlash should it grant the same sum for a project “which an unsympathetic and inaccurate critic might describe as a single instrument for one man.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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