furor
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Though some activists demanded Wasserman leave his post as LA28 chair and called for a Games boycott, there has been no apparent reduction in sponsorships or ticket sales because of the furor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Danielle Wiley, one of those early bloggers, recalls how, at a conference in 2006, organizers provoked a furor when they announced that websites within their network would now be eligible to run banner advertising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
The same anger over lost oil wealth and a monarch in the pocket of foreign interests boiled over again in the 1970s, this time driven by religious furor from the charismatic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Lazizi Mara also asked for the case to proceed, saying it would give the camp a chance to reverse the reputational damage it had suffered amid online furor over the suit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026
Most people ignored us, jostling each other and craning their necks to see whatever was at the center of the furor.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
Nine of the 12 furors further found that both companies had acted with malice, oppression or fraud, a finding that set the stage for the separate punitive damages.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Unlike memorable judging furors from the 1990s and 2000s, this time there was social media for angry fans to dissect videos and zoom in on every potential misstep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Maybe that can take some of the the oxygen out of future furors over who gets to play whom unless the choice is truly egregious.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
Even comics without star power who have set off furors, like Sam Morril and Kurt Metzger, are doing fine.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2015
Their chosen speakers lashed them into fresh furors of patriotism while they waited.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
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