outrage
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In other words, this was not a new Girl Scout initiative, much less the ideological pivot some of the outrage suggested.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
A Congress leader in Kerala state recently sparked outrage, external with remarks about using women to make false complaints against political opponents.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The incident in April 2024 sparked global outrage and renewed calls to ensure the safety of aid workers in Gaza.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
He cut his trip short but not before sparking public outrage for leaving during a time of crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
But there was a swell of noisy outrage from other people in the crowded street, and the little gang of thugs laughed again and moved on.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
Will an overall fatigue with the outrages associated with ‘Emilia Pérez’ sink its chances of taking home the best picture Oscar?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
It was then that he decided to review the titles to land that went back a hundred years and he discovered the legalized outrages of his brother, José Arcadio.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Mr. Wells and his colleague Ross Wellington were outraged by its approach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
She says she was "completely outraged" at the spillage and the speed of the subsequent clean-up.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Senior officials who had overseen the subpoenas’ issuance acknowledged to an outraged Judge Arun Subramanian that the subpoenas were riddled with errors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
“We are deeply saddened and outraged by this act, but we refuse to let it define our community.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
News of the event not only outraged Durham blacks but bound them together—rich and poor, light-skinned and dark.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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In the months since, he has expanded the deployments of troops to US cities, outraging critics.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
However, after he was later picked out of a police line up the odds were stacked against him, and, on 28 March 2023, he was found guilty at Barnsley Magistrates' Court of outraging public decency.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024
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
In short, without outraging reason and contradicting every dictum of common sense, it is difficult to describe much that belonged to ancient monasticism in any other spirit than that of impatience.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
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