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outcry

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


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Amid a public outcry, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko acknowledged the case has "sparked a broader discussion about the behaviour of certain service members in the rear."

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

Since the Church of Scientology first requested the city vacate a stretch of South Garden Avenue more than a year ago, the proposal has triggered outcry and suspicions about Scientology’s sway over local government.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

He had the tattoo covered up following the outcry.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

When Judge Nicholas Rowland passed the sentences at Southampton Crown Court in May, there was an outcry from the girls and their families and from politicians.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

Gurgi, draped over Melyngar’s saddle, immediately set up a great outcry.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

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

Despite outcries from advocates and individuals, however, hospital leaders have stayed silent.

From Seattle Times Jun. 30, 2023

Gurgi, sitting cross-legged, devoured his food with so many outcries of pleasure and loud smackings of his lips that he seemed to be eating twice as much as he really did.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

"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 Binning, Hugh

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 Kyd, Thomas

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 Young, E. H. (Emily Hilda)

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 Norris, Frank

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 Jackson, Helen Hunt




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