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outcry

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


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Amid the outcry, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called Saturday for AI companies to "pace the frontier" -- or coordinate a slowdown in the technology's development -- to allow a better understanding of the risks arising.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

The resulting outcry shamed the network and demonstrated the activating power of public outrage.

From Salon Sep. 10, 2026

Infantino's plan sparked a global outcry, with European football's governing body Uefa threatening to boycott all Fifa competitions.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Chief Executive Oliver Blume’s plan to make the company smaller and less German has sparked union and political outcry.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

“We didn’t get the public outcry over air bags,” he said.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

Such public outcries and legal challenges are likely to follow in the other nations preparing to pass their own age-verification mandates—and that’s exactly where the energy needs to be directed.

From Slate Feb. 11, 2026

When immigration agents followed two women through an L.A. courthouse last month and arrested them, it drew outcries from nearly all corners of L.A.’s legal community.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2025

There were a lot of outcries when Rose Lavelle and Emily Sonnett announced earlier this month their decision to sign with NJ/NY Gotham FC as free agents.

From Seattle Times Jan. 15, 2024

Gurgi, sitting cross-legged, devoured his food with so many outcries of pleasure and loud smackings of his lips that he seemed to be eating twice as much as he really did.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

"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

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

What outcried pluck me from my naked bed, And chill my throbbing hart with trembling feare, Which neuer danger yet could daunt before?

From The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd

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

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




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