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outrage

[aut-rayj] / ˈaʊt reɪdʒ /




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Late on Thursday evening, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she had spoken to President Donald Trump about the shooting and had expressed "outrage on behalf of New Yorkers".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Around the time the outrage reached a fever pitch, however, the completion date was announced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

But I’d argue that Fennell intends to galvanize thought and action, not outrage.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Much of the initial outrage was fueled by the misconception that Uber planned to send its regular drivers, who often drive compact, two-wheel-drive sedans, into the park, instead of licensed guides with proper 4x4s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

As though it was choreographed, cries of outrage rang out, and I wished I’d paid more attention to what the guy was saying.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Not if you’re a newbie trying to join an intergalactic police force devoted to stopping interplanetary outrages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It reveals an American elite blinded to outrages occurring in plain view, due to the clubby nature of high society.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025

In an interview with historian Brian Harrison in the 1970s, Jessie recalled the so-called "pillar box outrages" were planned "with military precision."

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025

The full list of outrages is too long to list here, and I assume that most informed readers know about most of them.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

These, detached in our minds from all the rest, we take to be unnatural events, anomalies, outrages.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Conservationists and shark lovers were outraged at the proposal.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

The younger man emerges from this labyrinth of court proceedings and outraged amour-propre in the worst possible light.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

When Peters was sentenced, Trump declared himself outraged.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

“We heard loud and clear how outraged the community was that they were unaware that Goodland Guns was able to do this without a public process,” Supervisor Laura Capps said in an email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The cafeteria was so absurdly loud they could speak in normal voices and not be overheard, but it was all Kate could do to keep her voice below an outraged shout.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

The man, Trevor Reece, 40, pleaded guilty to outraging public decency in September 2025.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

In the months since, he has expanded the deployments of troops to US cities, outraging critics.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

Russia enacted a similar law that year, outraging women’s rights advocates.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

A controlled burn in Calaveras Big Trees State Park has badly damaged a pair of giant sequoias named ‘the Orphans,’ outraging community members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

But the Egyptians say that it was not Amasis who endured this contumely, but another Egyptian of the same age, whom the Persians outraged under the impression that they were outraging Amasis.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker




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