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outcry

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


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Gee made a similar move to enforce the settlement in response to the president’s controversial first-term family separation policy and widespread public outcry over the treatment of children in immigration detention.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

The outcry from Mexican democrats who cherish free speech has been extraordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Reports of conditions on the Lincoln have sparked an outcry from some lawmakers.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Andy Burnham says he is "confident" PC Andrew Harper's killers can be excluded from the government's early release scheme, as outcry over the case grows.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

It was snatched away and there was an outcry.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

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

When immigration agents followed two women through an L.A. courthouse last month and arrested them, it drew outcries from nearly all corners of L.A.’s legal community.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2025

It came as many police departments nationwide have changed the way they respond to certain calls, including those involving mentally ill people — in response to outcries over police killings.

From Seattle Times Oct. 19, 2023

They lamented and tore their hair, the priests, as fraught and rhetorical as they were when they prayed, and after a few days their outcries made people uneasy.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

"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

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

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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