outcry

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

The resulting outcry shamed the network and demonstrated the activating power of public outrage.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

Menin’s outcry helped thrust into the public eye the private effort to get the Met to revise its plans to fete Galliano at a time when antisemitism is rising globally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The plan to ease prison congestion had initially included those convicted of manslaughter but, following a high profile outcry, on Saturday Andy Burnham said this category of offender had been ruled out.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

His death provoked a national outcry and massive sympathy marches in cities across the North.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

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

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

The Walla Walla High School media specialist spent 15 months defending the school library against public outcries for removal of books, their dismissal and hostile board meetings.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

The room erupted in outcries of anger and dismay.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

"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

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

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

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