backlash
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Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, a conflict-resolution organization, said the backlash also reflected Trump’s declaration that the American blockade would continue despite Iran’s opening.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Among players, opinions seem more mixed than the online backlash suggests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
It was a backlash against millionaires who were profiting off the backs of ordinary people.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
However, their report has also provoked a vicious backlash from equally esteemed scientists who label it as fundamentally flawed.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Again, racial equality was being forced upon the South by the federal government, and by 1956, Southern white opposition to desegregation mushroomed into a vicious backlash.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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