outcry
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Then this September, news of the civil suit broke, sparking a wave of outcry on social media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The outcry engulfed the Australian team and the entire nation.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
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
There were a lot of outcries when Rose Lavelle and Emily Sonnett announced earlier this month their decision to sign with NJ/NY Gotham FC as free agents.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
The #OscarsSoWhite outcries from 2015 and 2016, prompted by all-white slates of acting nominees, continue to reverberate at the academy, which has been trying to diversify its membership by race, gender and nationality.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
For some moments Taran heard nothing but a confusion of voices, angry outcries and bickering, with Eiddileg trying to shout above them.
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
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 Thomas Kyd
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
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
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