furor
Example Sentences
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It also mixes in archival news reports and interviews with Rushdie detailing the furor in the Islamic world that greeted the publication of his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses."
From Barron's
The furor is due to his pointed comments defending an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a Minneapolis woman driving away from him.
From Los Angeles Times
This reviewer is a big fan of Mr. Nesbitt, who generates a singular strain of furor.
After a year of internal furor at Harvard and a faculty vote of no confidence, Summers eventually stepped down as president.
From Salon
The furor ramps up the pressure to reform Lloyd’s, which has a centurieslong history of product innovation and marked cultural conservatism.
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