protest
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Shaw has showed up at track meets to protest Hernandez’s participation — which Hernandez’s mother has called threatening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Residents have taken to the streets and beaches repeatedly this summer to protest the growing flock of visitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The protest involved dozens of people walking on public footpaths and then going through a gap in the metal fencing around the site to access the private land.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The protest was organized by the Catholic Church along with business leaders and families of missing persons.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Hord shouted a protest, but Fin-Kedinn silenced him with a glance.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
I must have missed their protests against almonds and golf courses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
But a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing on Hong Kong in 2020 after huge pro-democracy protests has stymied dissent in the financial hub.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Prosecutor Lucy Paddick told the court he was accused of throwing a bottle towards a police line during the protests.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Attempts to discredit the cockroach protests in similar ways, however, gained less traction for a number of reasons.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Even the terror of the post-Reconstruction era couldn’t quell these protests entirely.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Irish President Catherine Connolly, a longtime critic of Trump who protested his previous presidential visit in 2019, met privately with the president Saturday.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
On Thursday, 120 taxi drivers in the eastern province of Kerman protested a cut in their allocation of subsidized fuel, according to the Union of Truckers and Drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Tung era reached low points in July 2003 when 500,000 people protested against restrictive anti-subversion laws proposed by China, and again a year later when about the same number rallied for democracy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Multiple charities protested what they said amounted to a “social cleansing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I’m not sorry,” protested Jo, with a choke.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
He was expelled from Prairie View A&M University in 1971 after protesting against the expulsion of the editor of the student newspaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
On the ground, though, the people protesting in Albania are against something much bigger.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
His potential problem is that Venezuela has a population of nearly 30 million people who believe they are citizens of a sovereign country, and they are already protesting this deal furiously.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Some men have gone to prison for protesting the ban.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
After Petey left, dragging the people of Bone Gap with her—including a vigorously protesting Jonas Apple, who wanted statements, damn it—Finn went to his room to check on the Kittens.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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