ruckus
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Surely you’ve heard about it by now—the ruckus over deliberate losing and the lengths to which teams go to get a shot at a top draft pick.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Those renovations raised a brief ruckus over the summer after Administration officials such as Russ Vought of the Office of Management and Budget accused the Fed of running over budget on a needlessly grandiose project.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
On Tuesday, 250 years after that ride, Judge Charles Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco raised a similar ruckus without ever leaving the bench.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
The ruckus over the edits contributed to the departure of two top CBS News executives.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025
As much ruckus as the cap’n was making, the pounding that exploded out of the small house’s only door was even louder.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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