outcry
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Almost 100 municipalities in the U.S. have ended their Flock contracts in response to public outcry, including several in Texas, such as Bandera and Hood County.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
A last-minute bid by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to reduce electric utilities’ wildfire liabilities failed in the state legislature after an outcry from survivors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Amid the outcry, Rocha Moya announced Saturday night he was asking state lawmakers to grant him another leave — a request certain to be granted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
That came after an outcry over the initial consultation document for the Nutrients Action Programme.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
When it was announced that John Glenn would return to space as a payload specialist in 1998, an outcry arose.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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When the airline shed its plastic boarding passes, or its row-facing-row lounge seating, there were minor outcries, Jordan said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
When immigration agents followed two women through an L.A. courthouse last month and arrested them, it drew outcries from nearly all corners of L.A.’s legal community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025
And despite these outcries, he’s in good shape to do so.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024
The action in Tennessee drew outcries from a range of groups.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
They lamented and tore their hair, the priests, as fraught and rhetorical as they were when they prayed, and after a few days their outcries made people uneasy.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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"This triggered the victim's memory and he immediately outcried to his parents."
From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 27, 2014
"After the St. John's County Sheriff's Office investigated one of their own, my family outcried along with the public to get an outside investigation," Crites said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2014
You've far outcried the latest cry— Out Monet-ed Monet.
From Songs Of The Road by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
But yet all this is outcried by the contrary noise of every man's practice.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Stand firm!' that rugged voice outcried; 'Of such as choose despondency for guide Hast thou not heard what bitterest fate is sung?
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
It would die down for an instant, in response to these appeals, only to burst out afresh as certain groups of traders started the pandemonium again, by the wild outcrying of their offers.
From The Pit by Frank Norris
There was a great outcrying and trembling of hearts at the farm-house when Donald and Elspie appeared in this sorry plight of torn and burned clothes, blackened faces, scorched and singed hair.
From Between Whiles by Helen Hunt Jackson
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