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outcry

[aut-krahy, aut-krahy] / ˈaʊtˌkraɪ, ˌaʊtˈkraɪ /


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By 5:15 p.m., the social-media outcry on Binance’s crisis had grown too loud for the company and its founder to ignore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Yet much of the international outcry has faded, and foreign governments have grown quieter on the issue as they seek stable relations with China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The European Union's central data regulator on Tuesday said smart glasses should give "clear warnings" when they are recording, after a public outcry in recent months over secretly filmed footage of girls and women.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The outcry engulfed the Australian team and the entire nation.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Pan- American Highway had been laid right through them without causing an outcry.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The company also dropped some war-related bets after public outcries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

And despite these outcries, he’s in good shape to do so.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024

The Walla Walla High School media specialist spent 15 months defending the school library against public outcries for removal of books, their dismissal and hostile board meetings.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

The #OscarsSoWhite outcries from 2015 and 2016, prompted by all-white slates of acting nominees, continue to reverberate at the academy, which has been trying to diversify its membership by race, gender and nationality.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

They lamented and tore their hair, the priests, as fraught and rhetorical as they were when they prayed, and after a few days their outcries made people uneasy.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

"This triggered the victim's memory and he immediately outcried to his parents."

From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 27, 2014

"After the St. John's County Sheriff's Office investigated one of their own, my family outcried along with the public to get an outside investigation," Crites said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2014

But yet all this is outcried by the contrary noise of every man's practice.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

How can I live to die some other tide, And, dying, hear my loveless name outcried About the portals of that weary land Whereby my shadowy feet should come to stand.

From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by William Morris

Stand firm!' that rugged voice outcried; 'Of such as choose despondency for guide Hast thou not heard what bitterest fate is sung?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges

It would die down for an instant, in response to these appeals, only to burst out afresh as certain groups of traders started the pandemonium again, by the wild outcrying of their offers.

From The Pit by Frank Norris

There was a great outcrying and trembling of hearts at the farm-house when Donald and Elspie appeared in this sorry plight of torn and burned clothes, blackened faces, scorched and singed hair.

From Between Whiles by Helen Hunt Jackson


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