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outrage

[out-reyj] / ˈaʊt reɪdʒ /




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Between outrage from voters fearing higher energy and water bills, representatives fearing blame and obstacles from federal regulators, the challenges are mounting for Big Tech companies looking to meet the demand for AI.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

News of the young coyote’s death was met with an outpouring of grief by many residents, as well as outrage over who would shoot her.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

The recommendations "are designed to hold our attention, and too often that means privileging provocative and extreme content because outrage drives engagement and engagement drives profit", Steven Roberts at Monash University said.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Britain took the brunt of Israel's anger, but the fact that 12 countries chose to move together clearly sharpened the sense of outrage.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Now that he’s at full outrage, Adam Tok looks very much like he does during his famous rants on YouTube.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Years later, similar outrages have come to light and government officials will have a harder time finding someone to blame.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 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

I guess I had the sense that something shameful on my part—I don’t know what—invited these pedagogic outrages.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

Initially outraged, union leaders eventually agreed to capacity and workforce cuts in exchange for a fresh jobs guarantee for the survivors.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Canadians became outraged over the weekend as a number of companies and government organizations in Ontario and elsewhere displayed “Lake America” on their websites, as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

When Dad heard that, he acted outraged, as though he’d learned for the first time that his children were going hungry.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

From Barron's Oct. 18, 2025

Ex-Barnsley striker Shaun Tuton was dropped by Whitby Town after he was found guilty of outraging public decency, with details of the case reported in the national press.

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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