furor

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

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

A further furor was ignited over federal investigators excluding state and local agencies from participating in an investigation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

For those who have blessedly forgotten the furor from last fall, in late September the NFL announced that Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican rapper, would headline the official program.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

The furor over Minneapolis has tested the Apple CEO’s strategy for navigating Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Pushed by a worldwide media furor, a dozen scientific teams looked for similar evidence in other archaeological sites.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

The point here, it ought to be said, is less to engage in moral whataboutism than to observe that public furors are frequently neither consistent nor coincidental.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022

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