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outrage

[aut-rayj] / ˈaʊt reɪdʒ /




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Exit polls showed there is public outrage about corruption, and that corruption drove so much of this voting behavior.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

In the comments of Stewart’s statement, some followers defended the celebrity homemaker and said outrage over the costume could be channeled into addressing homelessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

But the announcement sparked outrage among German politicians and labor-union leaders worried about job cuts at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron reacted with outrage to the attack, stressing the need for "far more than a localised ceasefire" like the one in Oleshky.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

“The police don’t care about the disappearances, but if we can stir up some public outrage, maybe that will inspire them to look into it.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

But it’s just as much about journalistic malpractice, ethical outrages and the besmearing of reputations on the flimsiest of evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

It reveals an American elite blinded to outrages occurring in plain view, due to the clubby nature of high society.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025

In an interview with historian Brian Harrison in the 1970s, Jessie recalled the so-called "pillar box outrages" were planned "with military precision."

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025

Will an overall fatigue with the outrages associated with ‘Emilia Pérez’ sink its chances of taking home the best picture Oscar?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

I guess I had the sense that something shameful on my part—I don’t know what—invited these pedagogic outrages.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

"We are outraged because even I, as the minister responsible for this sector, was not informed."

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

It doesn’t capture the fact that your reader and your viewer and your listener are shocked and possibly outraged and really struggling with what’s going on.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

"Last night I went to bed incredibly frustrated, outraged, ashamed that no one is telling us anything."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

After a concertgoer died in the audience at a Carson music festival on Saturday, an artist is outraged the show continued while the deceased was still on-site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

News of the event not only outraged Durham blacks but bound them together—rich and poor, light-skinned and dark.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

In the months since, he has expanded the deployments of troops to US cities, outraging critics.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

However, after he was later picked out of a police line up the odds were stacked against him, and, on 28 March 2023, he was found guilty at Barnsley Magistrates' Court of outraging public decency.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024

Russia enacted a similar law that year, outraging women’s rights advocates.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

A controlled burn in Calaveras Big Trees State Park has badly damaged a pair of giant sequoias named ‘the Orphans,’ outraging community members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

Not that he had any intention of outraging the proprieties, or any suspicion that he was doing so.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 by Frances Eleanor Trollope


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