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outrage

[aut-rayj] / ˈaʊt reɪdʒ /




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But the message from all of this isn't to dwell on outrage but to take action.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The network was already moving on to its next outrage: days-old comments from Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat and former CIA analyst.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Much of the outrage in Ukraine this week has been over restrictions to the Starshield satellite communications system that its military relies upon to detect incoming Russian attacks and to coordinate its frontline response.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

But the attraction is a deftly organized outrage executed with highly calibrated timing, technology and chutzpah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

His head started to clear, and his sense of outrage came to a boil.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

That line of thought outrages Tony Clark, the executive director of the players’ union.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

Annoyed by the outrages of the regular army, General José Raquel Moncada used his political influence, put on his uniform again, and assumed the civil and military leadership of Macondo.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"We are outraged by this unwarranted attack on a journalist doing her job and urge a thorough investigation and follow-through from authorities," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

While Griffin and fellow business leaders were outraged by the stunt, Mamdani’s poll numbers haven’t suffered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Residents were also outraged that the nearby Santa Ynez Reservoir, which had been drained for lengthy repairs, sat empty and dry as neighborhoods burned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

When Peters was sentenced, Trump declared himself outraged.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

This blatant disregard of the law outraged the packinghouse owners; future cases were removed to the court of another community where the law was better upheld.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

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

First, that achievement in life demands not the fostering of the gentler human emotions, but their outraging.

From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum


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