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brouhaha

[broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah] / ˈbru hɑˌhɑ, ˌbru hɑˈhɑ, bruˈhɑ hɑ /
NOUN
uproar
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Since then, however, and even before this latest brouhaha, the shares have begun to struggle.

From MarketWatch Mar. 30, 2026

This is something far more daffy and useless: The brouhaha over unrequited affections between Seattle Mariners at the World Baseball Classic.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 16, 2026

I imagine there will be a ballet/opera joke or two, though that brouhaha occurred after voting closed so if Chalamet does not win, no hate should be directed at the Royal Opera company.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2026

With the Greenland brouhaha sidelined for now, investors can look ahead to a big week of earnings as about a fifth of S&P 500 companies will report, including four of the Magnificent Seven.

From Barron's Jan. 25, 2026

There was a general brouhaha as a couple dozen cars tried to back up or U-turn their way in the proper direction.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

Gates’ brouhaha was one of four brouhahas from Tuesday’s morning session that coaches didn’t find very funny as they were unfolding.

From Washington Times Aug. 15, 2023

Yet as with many such brouhahas, it provides clues to soft spots in the culture, to the fragilities that were already there.

From New York Times Oct. 25, 2022

Thornton, who didn’t speak after the game, has been in beard brouhahas before.

From Seattle Times Jan. 5, 2018

By the 1910s, partisan brouhahas had evaporated almost entirely from sporting events.

From Slate Jan. 2, 2018

The Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly war-story-inflation brouhahas took me by surprise — mostly because, in my experience, journalists seldom discuss their close calls, let alone exaggerate them.

From Washington Post Mar. 5, 2015




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