outcry
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Yet much of the international outcry has faded, and foreign governments have grown quieter on the issue as they seek stable relations with China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The European Union's central data regulator on Tuesday said smart glasses should give "clear warnings" when they are recording, after a public outcry in recent months over secretly filmed footage of girls and women.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
As outcry over the incident grew online, the city issued a follow-up statement just hours later, saying it “understands the concern and sadness this reported incident has caused throughout our community.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
But the BBC investigation sparked a public outcry and led to calls from lawmakers for an investigation, after which the government announced a comprehensive review.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
These events were seized upon by the press, and their vivid accounts of what had taken place shocked the country and led to a public outcry for the suffragists.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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The company also dropped some war-related bets after public outcries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Such public outcries and legal challenges are likely to follow in the other nations preparing to pass their own age-verification mandates—and that’s exactly where the energy needs to be directed.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026
After international outcries, the number of trucks entering has crept up, but it is still less than a third of what came in before the war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
The Walla Walla High School media specialist spent 15 months defending the school library against public outcries for removal of books, their dismissal and hostile board meetings.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
For some moments Taran heard nothing but a confusion of voices, angry outcries and bickering, with Eiddileg trying to shout above them.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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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
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
What outcried pluck me from my naked bed, And chill my throbbing hart with trembling feare, Which neuer danger yet could daunt before?
From The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd
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
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
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