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outcry

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


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Reports of conditions on the Lincoln have sparked an outcry from some lawmakers.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

This was around the time that Amazon's Ring, a doorbell camera firm, cancelled a partnership with Flock after an outcry over a Super Bowl advert which sparked concern about unwanted surveillance.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Following extensive media coverage and public outcry, Chavez Velasco was released to his family.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

This explains the outcry over the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to make quarterly reporting voluntary and allow semiannual reporting instead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

News of the Reverend Smith’s death provoked a huge outcry in British newspapers and in Parliament.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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

After international outcries, the number of trucks entering has crept up, but it is still less than a third of what came in before the war.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 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 room erupted in outcries of anger and dismay.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

"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

You've far outcried the latest cry— Out Monet-ed Monet.

From Songs Of The Road by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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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