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backlash

[bak-lash] / ˈbækˌlæʃ /


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Following the backlash, EL Mayer was called to the Diary Room during Wednesday's episode.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But the organization, like many similarly focused humanitarian groups, is fighting for its survival amid a global backlash against refugees and migrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

“All of that is really to address some of this backlash that you’re seeing at the community-level with data centers,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

How else can you explain a verse that is 90% throat-clearing and preemptive dodges of the backlash he knows is coming?

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

Again, racial equality was being forced upon the South by the federal government, and by 1956, Southern white opposition to desegregation mushroomed into a vicious backlash.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Several celebrities or influencers who have ventured into the crypto market have faced similar backlashes.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024

Oligarchs haven’t always been willing to be visible because in history, there have been backlashes against wealth and wealth-power.

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2024

By starting the exercise while most students were away on winter break, university leaders minimized the raucous backlashes that have bedeviled previous attempts by campus officials to take control of the park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

Some South Korean celebrities like singers Harisu and Ha:tfelt have been speaking out on touchy subjects such as the anti-discrimination law and feminism, despite backlashes.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2022

One way to think about those backlashes is as an emotional response to loss of status.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022


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