outcry

Example Sentences

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The city initially removed the markings, citing accessibility requirements, before later reversing course and installing permanent crosswalks following public outcry.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

A plan to build housing for 1,200 foreign workers that was approved last autumn sparked outcry among locals.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Earlier this month, a state-chartered bank run by crypto exchange Kraken became the first crypto firm to win access to the Fed’s payment system, raising an outcry from banking groups.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

It backed down after a public outcry and also because mass layoffs at the Department of Education likely left the agency without the resources to collect the debts.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

There was continual outcry against the troops by some — soldiers scuffling with boys, their heel-marks in the slush; girls surrounded by lanky privates.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson