outrage
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Roosevelt directed Garfield to engage in a three-step campaign: Build a record against targeted companies; leak their worst offenses to the press to generate outrage; then press Congress for action against the offenders.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
One hand holding a microphone, the other arm tightly tucked across her chest, she retreated to her zones of rhetorical comfort: grievance, victimhood, outrage.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
The crux of the outrage surrounding Fennell’s film stemmed largely from the fact that she refused to rename her relatively loose, aesthetic-minded adaptation with a title that didn’t directly reference Emily Brontë’s novel.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
A video from Odisha state of Jitu Munda, 52, taking the remains to the bank went viral this week, sparking outrage.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
He repeated his story, harshly recapitulant, seeming to get an actual pleasure out of his outrage and impotence.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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