outrage
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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
In the wake of the outrage, the county walked back its decision, declaring a moratorium on data centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
"It's been a surreal experience to be the focus of such widespread outrage after just one mention by a celebrity."
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The author is a first-rate storyteller, and here he delivers something we don’t get much of these days: fun—a modern Horatio Alger story unattached to the politics of outrage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
And all the pity and outrage she’d felt on behalf of Minya’s bound ghosts deserted her.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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This editorial is hard to read, but unless we want to experience similar terror-driven antisemitic outrages in the future, the truth must be told and retold to and by people of good will.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 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
But like other social media outrages, it has faded.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024
These nasty trains, I thought, and all the outrages I’d read of.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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The findings have outraged many and left the top flight of English football in limbo with its top team facing potential sanctions.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
When Peters was sentenced, Trump declared himself outraged.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 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
It’s common for lawmakers and advocacy groups to fire off outraged letters about a company’s alleged wrongdoing.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Residents of the North and South, East and West were saddened and outraged by the assassination attempt.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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The man, Trevor Reece, 40, pleaded guilty to outraging public decency in September 2025.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
A month later, he posted on X: “The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,” outraging many of his anti-vaccine supporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
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
I don’t see, either, how the outraging of other people’s finer feelings is going to benefit you, or, to any appreciable extent, injure me.”
From The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Bertram Mitford
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