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outcry

[aut-krahy, aut-krahy] / ˈaʊtˌkraɪ, ˌaʊtˈkraɪ /


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Amid public outcry, the district attorney reopened the case, and Hochul has since appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to head the criminal investigation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Cover from nearby Eyemouth was promised instead, but the plans sparked outcry with a petition against the move gathering about 13,000 signatures.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Whether Macklemore would remain on Sheeran’s tour amid the public outcry remained uncertain, until he confirmed his status earlier this week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Lee was detained by police when trying to leave Beijing, but was allowed to return to Hong Kong after an outcry from the financial hub's citizens.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

When the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

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

What hap-pened later he’d pieced together from loud outcries and scraps of conversation deep in the middle of the night.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

"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

How can I live to die some other tide, And, dying, hear my loveless name outcried About the portals of that weary land Whereby my shadowy feet should come to stand.

From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by William Morris

I think the woman in Thee outcried the man.'

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett

You've far outcried the latest cry— Out Monet-ed Monet.

From Songs Of The Road by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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