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brouhaha

[broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah] / ˈbru hɑˌhɑ, ˌbru hɑˈhɑ, bruˈhɑ hɑ /
NOUN
uproar
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Imagine the brouhaha if the appointment had been unannounced, if he had had the job taken from him before he even started.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

Since then, however, and even before this latest brouhaha, the shares have begun to struggle.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 2026

This is something far more daffy and useless: The brouhaha over unrequited affections between Seattle Mariners at the World Baseball Classic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

I imagine there will be a ballet/opera joke or two, though that brouhaha occurred after voting closed so if Chalamet does not win, no hate should be directed at the Royal Opera company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026

And to do it without too much brouhaha.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

The billionaire, who oversees the electric carmaker Tesla and other companies, is already embroiled in public brouhahas on many other fronts, including a will-he won’t-he $44 billion deal to buy the social media service Twitter.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

After the cafeteria exiles and karaoke brouhahas, the 30th Street Center teamed up with a local nonprofit, the Institute on Aging, to develop an anti-bullying program.

From Washington Times ● May 12, 2018

Thornton, who didn’t speak after the game, has been in beard brouhahas before.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2018

By the 1910s, partisan brouhahas had evaporated almost entirely from sporting events.

From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2018

Recent years have produced similar brouhahas about whether serving sushi, or wearing kimonos, sombreros or hijabs, amounts to oppression, invasion or even just benign appreciation of other cultures’ traditions and innovations.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2016




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