outcry

A US energy exploration company has sparked an outcry by unloading drilling equipment without authorisation on the east coast of Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

With public outcry growing over data centers nationwide, local officials and developers have found quieter ways to get projects approved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The outcry has spread beyond social media, with comedian Jimmy Kimmel calling the Meta devices “pervert glasses” on national television and singer Lorde telling concertgoers that smart glasses are “not sexy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Following extensive media coverage and public outcry, Chavez Velasco was released to his family.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

News of the Reverend Smith’s death provoked a huge outcry in British newspapers and in Parliament.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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

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

More than a decade ago, outcries about the lack of diversity in the tech industry reverberated across major Silicon Valley companies from Facebook to Google.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2025

And in writings and interviews in their later years, both Edna and Humphries stumbled with comments that drew outcries from members of the Latino and trans communities and others.

From New York Times ● Apr. 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

In that announcement she outcried the stream, and through the comparative quietness that followed a hideous noise rumbled and shrieked upwards from the hollow.

From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

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

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