outcry
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Yet much of the international outcry has faded, and foreign governments have grown quieter on the issue as they seek stable relations with China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The European Union's central data regulator on Tuesday said smart glasses should give "clear warnings" when they are recording, after a public outcry in recent months over secretly filmed footage of girls and women.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Amid public outcry, the district attorney reopened the case, and Hochul has since appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to head the criminal investigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The outcry engulfed the Australian team and the entire nation.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
An open outcry would reveal that our professor was completely in the dark about what the initials DNA stood for.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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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
After international outcries, the number of trucks entering has crept up, but it is still less than a third of what came in before the war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
The action in Tennessee drew outcries from a range of groups.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Gurgi, sitting cross-legged, devoured his food with so many outcries of pleasure and loud smackings of his lips that he seemed to be eating twice as much as he really did.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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"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
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
You've far outcried the latest cry— Out Monet-ed Monet.
From Songs Of The Road by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I think the woman in Thee outcried the man.'
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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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