outrage
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Belgium’s outrage ahead of its match against the Americans verged on disbelief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Three little letters—VAR, for video assistant referee—have reshaped matches and sparked global outrage for the past four weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The incidents have not just caused outrage in Mexico.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The incident has sparked outrage and questions across the city, prompting Los Angeles police Chief Jim McDonnell to promise a full investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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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Then came the daily announcements and receipts documenting scandalous spending outrages, not all of which lived up to their original billing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
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
The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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But in her outraged response, Stuckey became most emotional over an aside in which I mocked her for denying that dinosaurs existed millions of years before humans.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
Even followers of other prominent Shia clerics, such as Iraq’s own Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, were outraged by Khamenei’s killing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The Times, I think justifiably, included Fifield’s political work in the story, a move that outraged her and many others.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Burach says she was outraged and, as such, wrote to departmental leadership to share her patient’s feedback about how targeted solicitation felt “creepy.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
Russia enacted a similar law that year, outraging women’s rights advocates.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Two men, aged 31 and 27, are being held on suspicion of outraging public decency at Sunderland's away match to Sheffield Wednesday.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2023
Materialism is the murderous outlaw of the age, an enemy that goes bullying through the land, outraging our finer natures, overturning our ideals, polluting our ambitions.
From Neighbours by Stead, Robert J. C.
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