backlash
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“But what we hear from companies is that, though there was backlash on social media, people aren’t giving backlash with their wallets.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
"It would be 100% be controversial - there would be a backlash", Worrall says.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
But a 2021 set at a notorious homeless encampment in Oakland earned backlash from advocates, who said the band was taking advantage of desperate people to throw aesthetically nihilistic punk shows.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
When Secretary of War James Monroe proposed a system of national conscription during the War of 1812, the backlash was immediate and fierce.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
Constitutional amendments guaranteeing African Americans “equal protection of the laws” and the right to vote proved as impotent as the Emancipation Proclamation once a white backlash against Reconstruction gained steam.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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