outrage
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Much of the initial outrage was fueled by the misconception that Uber planned to send its regular drivers, who often drive compact, two-wheel-drive sedans, into the park, instead of licensed guides with proper 4x4s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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
The outrage around the campaign echoes that provoked by American Eagle's "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans" campaign in 2025.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
As though it was choreographed, cries of outrage rang out, and I wished I’d paid more attention to what the guy was saying.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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This time, it’s four episodes devoted to two outrages, the first of which involves the vanishing of what has become conventional forensic evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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
It moves so fast that all the excesses, all the outrages seem to be par for the course.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2024
It was then that he decided to review the titles to land that went back a hundred years and he discovered the legalized outrages of his brother, José Arcadio.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
Residents were also outraged that the nearby Santa Ynez Reservoir, which had been drained for lengthy repairs, sat empty and dry as neighborhoods burned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
When Peters was sentenced, Trump declared himself outraged.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 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
Once the town was greatly outraged over what the citizens considered a slight to an author.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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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
Kian Withers, of James Street, Lurgan, admitted committing an act outraging public decency.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
In his explanation of thrusting himself into the Tien-wang's palace, and outraging all the Ti-ping rules and ceremonies, Mr. Parkes has evidently forgotten himself, and represented his own conduct as that of the Ti-pings.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley
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