outrage
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The news of Rogan’s top spot on the list sparked outrage online.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It turns out the answer was not even there—it was only after the public outrage spilled over that they would speak out.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
But outrage over alleged exam irregularities soon turned it into an unlikely rallying point for broader frustrations over unemployment, failing institutions and political indifference.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The leak—part of a recurring pattern in recent years—sparked widespread outrage among both students and their parents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
By finally presenting 134 of Elisha’s letters to the public, Maggie hoped to create outrage over her treatment by the Kane family.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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This editorial is hard to read, but unless we want to experience similar terror-driven antisemitic outrages in the future, the truth must be told and retold to and by people of good will.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
It reveals an American elite blinded to outrages occurring in plain view, due to the clubby nature of high society.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025
In an interview with historian Brian Harrison in the 1970s, Jessie recalled the so-called "pillar box outrages" were planned "with military precision."
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
The full list of outrages is too long to list here, and I assume that most informed readers know about most of them.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing’s monstrous ideas; but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Press freedom groups were outraged when it was announced two years ago that the media in Cameroon were banned from reporting on Biya's health.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The disaster left Boyle Heights wrapped in a cloud of severe odor, pest infestations and potentially toxic air, leaving the community outraged over ongoing cleanup delays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Senior officials who had overseen the subpoenas’ issuance acknowledged to an outraged Judge Arun Subramanian that the subpoenas were riddled with errors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Environmentalists in France were outraged Tuesday as parliament looked set to authorise some farmers to use two bee-harming pesticides banned in France but allowed in the European Union.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
When Pearl Harbor was attacked and the Second World War broke out, my family was properly outraged.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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A month later, he posted on X: “The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,” outraging many of his anti-vaccine supporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
In the months since, he has expanded the deployments of troops to US cities, outraging critics.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
They were sentenced to five years for contravening the penal code and outraging public decency.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025
Russia enacted a similar law that year, outraging women’s rights advocates.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
He, like Baudelaire, Flaubert, and De Maupassant, was summoned before the bar of justice for outraging public morals by the publication of his play, The Box of Pandora, the sequel to Erdgeist.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
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