ruckus
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White House officials gave him the boot last summer after he torpedoed gene therapies, causing a ruckus.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Various proposals to reverse those measures have kicked up a ruckus in Berlin, in recent months, as an overdue argument about intergenerational fairness is getting some air.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
On Tuesday, 250 years after that ride, Judge Charles Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco raised a similar ruckus without ever leaving the bench.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
The ruckus began after Christian Braun fouled Harden with 6.6 seconds left in the second quarter, causing a lot of pushing and shoving.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025
The elderly men whose voices hardly rose above a whisper, because they were so used to being listened to, were silenced completely in the ruckus.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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