backlash
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Daunt told The Times that the wave of backlash is based on misinterpretations of what he said, and that only a “highly edited version” of what the bookseller “actually said” had been aired.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
The reaction speaks to growing backlash against AI.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Google Glass was launched in 2013 but pulled in 2015, just seven months after its UK release, after a backlash around price and privacy.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Regular customers often paid for much of the cost of transmission lines that served data centers, adding to a backlash against the massive warehouses.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Constitutional amendments guaranteeing African Americans “equal protection of the laws” and the right to vote proved as impotent as the Emancipation Proclamation once a white backlash against Reconstruction gained steam.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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