backlash
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It follows weeks of backlash from employees, including some who started a petition against the move which now has more than 1,500 signatures.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Mullin said she sees "some simmering roots of an AI backlash" but not a strong one yet, so it is hard to foresee how this anger will play out and affect the way people vote.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Their comments also sparked some backlash, because Saylor has spent years urging his social-media followers to never sell bitcoin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
The new Ferrari Luce, the brainchild of iPhone designer Sir Jony Ive, is unlike anything the Italian carmaker has ever created - so is the backlash it is facing.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
The board would fear a backlash should it grant the same sum for a project “which an unsympathetic and inaccurate critic might describe as a single instrument for one man.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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