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brouhaha

[broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah] / ˈbru hɑˌhɑ, ˌbru hɑˈhɑ, bruˈhɑ hɑ /
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uproar
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The brouhaha over paid social media content is just the latest instance of the growing political impact of online creators.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

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

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

After years and years of tribulation and controversy, and the brouhaha about the match, Fischer had arrived at the threshold of his lifelong goal.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

However, today’s development in Seoul is just the latest in a string of brouhahas sparked around the region by Chinese diplomats in recent months.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 10, 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

Recent years have produced similar brouhahas about whether serving sushi, or wearing kimonos, sombreros or hijabs, amounts to oppression, invasion or even just benign appreciation of other cultures’ traditions and innovations.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2016




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