outrage
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Above the Amalfi, Ferrari’s portfolio soars in price, performance and visual outrage, starring cars like the 12Cilindri GT, Purosangue SUV and the all-electric Luce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
But in the meantime, such incidents risk becoming workaday stories that no longer inspire widespread outrage.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
But the tape drew outrage from Bush’s female colleagues at NBC News.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Moral outrage at the behaviour of young people is nothing new and predates the invention of e-bikes by a considerable margin.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Now that he’s at full outrage, Adam Tok looks very much like he does during his famous rants on YouTube.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Not if you’re a newbie trying to join an intergalactic police force devoted to stopping interplanetary outrages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Major broadcasters give these outrages the same weight as other headlines.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 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
There were no further outrages in the neighborhood.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
The younger man emerges from this labyrinth of court proceedings and outraged amour-propre in the worst possible light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
When Peters was sentenced, Trump declared himself outraged.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
“We heard loud and clear how outraged the community was that they were unaware that Goodland Guns was able to do this without a public process,” Supervisor Laura Capps said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Canadians became outraged over the weekend as a number of companies and government organizations in Ontario and elsewhere displayed “Lake America” on their websites, as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Jones was outraged a little later when the price of Coca-Cola went up from one to two frogs.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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
I have often thought that I really deserved punishment for thus outraging the public ear.
From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. Coup
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