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Michael Kotlikoff had spent his presidency navigating federal-funding disruptions and antisemitism controversies—until a campus sexual-assault furor erupted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

One neighbour reportedly sold their house to escape the furor.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Though some activists demanded Wasserman leave his post as LA28 chair and called for a Games boycott, there has been no apparent reduction in sponsorships or ticket sales because of the furor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

At nine years old they towered nine fathoms tall, nine cubits in the shoulders, and they promised furor upon Olympos, heaven broken by battle cries, the day they met the gods in arms.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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 Charles Theodore Murray