outrage

Three little letters—VAR, for video assistant referee—have reshaped matches and sparked global outrage for the past four weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The incidents have not just caused outrage in Mexico.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

The incident has sparked outrage and questions across the city, prompting Los Angeles police Chief Jim McDonnell to promise a full investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

The US team welcomed the decision, which coach Mauricio Pochettino called "fair", but it sparked outrage from Belgium and other teams.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

I was very hot indeed upon Old Orlick’s daring to admire her; as hot as if it were an outrage on myself.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

This time, it’s four episodes devoted to two outrages, the first of which involves the vanishing of what has become conventional forensic evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

There were no further outrages in the neighborhood.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Because for as many people as Byrd tantalized during her legendary cable run through the ’80s and ’90s, there were just as many who were outraged and scandalized by her sex-positive, queer-inclusive values.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Even followers of other prominent Shia clerics, such as Iraq’s own Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, were outraged by Khamenei’s killing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The Times, I think justifiably, included Fifield’s political work in the story, a move that outraged her and many others.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

MSF "is outraged by the arrest and detention of one of its employees as part of the enforcement of dress code requirements in the city," the group said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

It outraged him that the people who got credit for higher understanding were those who spent the most time currying favor with the media.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

A month later, he posted on X: “The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,” outraging many of his anti-vaccine supporters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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

Two men, aged 31 and 27, are being held on suspicion of outraging public decency at Sunderland's away match to Sheffield Wednesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2023

I must do the jade the justice of admitting that she had no intention of outraging the proprieties by going any further than a nocturnal terpsichorean revel.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)