outrage
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Around the time the outrage reached a fever pitch, however, the completion date was announced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Others took to social media expressing their outrage and demanding justice with one user saying: "Enough is enough."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
But I’d argue that Fennell intends to galvanize thought and action, not outrage.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
“This was a miscarriage of justice, and what happened to Mr. Hearn is an outrage that should shock every American.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
If outrage were a slip, then for years Sarai had worn only the one: the Carnage.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Not if you’re a newbie trying to join an intergalactic police force devoted to stopping interplanetary outrages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Major broadcasters give these outrages the same weight as other headlines.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 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
And yet, we shall succeed because we must—we have no choice in the matter—to fight or to submit to the greatest indignities and outrages.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Conservationists and shark lovers were outraged at the proposal.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
After a concertgoer died in the audience at a Carson music festival on Saturday, an artist is outraged the show continued while the deceased was still on-site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The younger man emerges from this labyrinth of court proceedings and outraged amour-propre in the worst possible light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
When Peters was sentenced, Trump declared himself outraged.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Kate, however, was too outraged to hold her tongue.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
The man, Trevor Reece, 40, pleaded guilty to outraging public decency in September 2025.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
In the months since, he has expanded the deployments of troops to US cities, outraging critics.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Russia enacted a similar law that year, outraging women’s rights advocates.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
A controlled burn in Calaveras Big Trees State Park has badly damaged a pair of giant sequoias named ‘the Orphans,’ outraging community members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
Now, if the small propertied class which controlled the government had governed well, or indeed had governed without grossly outraging the governed, the whole development of man might have been different.
From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly
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