protest
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There is plenty to protest in the plan: Trump is threatening to install gold accents throughout the buildings, and renderings show a new covered walkway that could interrupt the clean lines of Saarinen’s facade.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
"There is undoubtedly a level of intolerance creeping in which has become included in protest."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Leniz Cortes, who teaches preschool at Krieger, used sick hours to attend Monday’s protest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Ultra-Orthodox Jews approached at the protest declined to speak to journalists, saying that doing so would violate Shabbat.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
I tried to protest, but she put it in Karl’s hand and folded his fingers over it.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
A highly-popular tech evangelist who pushed for reforms, Fedorov was dismissed in July in a divisive reshuffle that triggered unprecedented protests in his support.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
He cut his campaigning teeth in the 1960s, joining protests against harsh homelessness laws that split up families and getting involved in the squatting movement.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The deaths of former premier Zhou Enlai in 1976 and Hu Yaobang, a former CCP general secretary, in 1989, prompted widespread outpourings of grief that morphed into protests.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
At the heart of the protests across the country, that is the question being asked: Do we get to decide the future that AI unleashes?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The rally at his school had been a failure, and he didn’t know how many people would be discouraged from future protests because of what had happened on campus.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
When other passengers asked if she was alright, Levy protested his innocence.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
You have protested masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in your neighborhoods.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Hundreds of people protested in Biddeford on Tuesday over the killing Monday of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Others have also protested, including more than a thousand actors and producers who signed an open letter in April railing against the merger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Mom,” I protested, “not now. I don’t want to think about that yet.”
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
The family of the couple said they had been protesting against how they and other prisoners were being treated.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Many Americans are out in the streets protesting and putting themselves on the line.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Albanians have been protesting against the project for months, but it was when barbed wire appeared six weeks ago to mark out the boundaries of the complex that anger erupted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
They described filming as almost inseparable from protesting itself.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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