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brouhaha

[broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah] / ˈbru hɑˌhɑ, ˌbru hɑˈhɑ, bruˈhɑ hɑ /
NOUN
uproar
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STRONGEST


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Sports columnist Jason Gay shares his take on the brouhaha.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Imagine the brouhaha if the appointment had been unannounced, if he had had the job taken from him before he even started.

From BBC Apr. 17, 2026

Since then, however, and even before this latest brouhaha, the shares have begun to struggle.

From MarketWatch Mar. 30, 2026

I imagine there will be a ballet/opera joke or two, though that brouhaha occurred after voting closed so if Chalamet does not win, no hate should be directed at the Royal Opera company.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2026

A small academic brouhaha ensued, complete with hundreds of footnotes.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

However, today’s development in Seoul is just the latest in a string of brouhahas sparked around the region by Chinese diplomats in recent months.

From Washington Times Jun. 10, 2023

The billionaire, who oversees the electric carmaker Tesla and other companies, is already embroiled in public brouhahas on many other fronts, including a will-he won’t-he $44 billion deal to buy the social media service Twitter.

From New York Times Oct. 14, 2022

Thornton, who didn’t speak after the game, has been in beard brouhahas before.

From Seattle Times Jan. 5, 2018

By the 1910s, partisan brouhahas had evaporated almost entirely from sporting events.

From Slate Jan. 2, 2018

The Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly war-story-inflation brouhahas took me by surprise — mostly because, in my experience, journalists seldom discuss their close calls, let alone exaggerate them.

From Washington Post Mar. 5, 2015




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