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“It amazes me that travelers are not up in arms about the way they get treated,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026

U.S. voters aren’t the only ones up in arms about affordability.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

The rapper’s overhaul of the dwelling saw it reduced to little more than a concrete shell, decimating almost all of Ando’s original design—and leaving design lovers up in arms over its destruction.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025

Fans are "equally up in arms and devastated at what happened", he told BBC Radio 5 Live.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

Simultaneous and contradictory information declared him victorious in Villanueva, defeated in Guacamayal, devoured by Motilón Indians, dead in a village in the swamp, and up in arms again in Urumita.

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




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