furor
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The international furor over Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests and briefly mainstreamed the Movement for Black Lives.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 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
Though most polls show that Britons still largely support the crown, the furor around Andrew has given antimonarchists cause to celebrate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Harry had forgotten they still had detentions to do in the furor over the points they’d lost.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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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
The point here, it ought to be said, is less to engage in moral whataboutism than to observe that public furors are frequently neither consistent nor coincidental.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022
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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