outrage
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After the comments sparked outrage, he said he had been referring only to those with "fake and bogus degrees".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some 2.2 million aspiring medical students sat for a re-examination under tight security last month after the previous test was scrapped following a question paper leak that triggered widespread outrage.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
It came from an online ecosystem that rewarded outrage, controversy and extreme personalities.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Belgium’s outrage ahead of its match against the Americans verged on disbelief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Marlena does a double take and stands, her jaw dropped in mock outrage.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Then came the daily announcements and receipts documenting scandalous spending outrages, not all of which lived up to their original billing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
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
That line of thought outrages Tony Clark, the executive director of the players’ union.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
These nasty trains, I thought, and all the outrages I’d read of.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was "shaken and outraged" by the attack on "our open society, our way of life" and expressed his condolences to the family and friends of the dead woman.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 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 orphanage fire has shocked and outraged many.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
But in her outraged response, Stuckey became most emotional over an aside in which I mocked her for denying that dinosaurs existed millions of years before humans.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
Annabeth was so horrified, so outraged by the unfairness of it all, she had to suppress the urge to throw up.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
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
You have much greater cause to keep your room and cry over your misdemeanours, than come here outraging all decency in this way.
From A Practical Novelist by Davidson, John
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