furor

As the two sides haggled, furor was growing among opponents of the merger, with activists including actor Mark Ruffalo on social media calling on Bonta to hold the line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

McCarthy rode the furor created by his speech to the heights of political celebrity, and ultimately to his own downfall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

One neighbour reportedly sold their house to escape the furor.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Danielle Wiley, one of those early bloggers, recalls how, at a conference in 2006, organizers provoked a furor when they announced that websites within their network would now be eligible to run banner advertising.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

The online furor over Traveler’s post died down—the comments slowed and the reposts stopped as the community moved on to other things.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Nine of the 12 furors further found that both companies had acted with malice, oppression or fraud, a finding that set the stage for the separate punitive damages.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Unlike memorable judging furors from the 1990s and 2000s, this time there was social media for angry fans to dissect videos and zoom in on every potential misstep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

The point here, it ought to be said, is less to engage in moral whataboutism than to observe that public furors are frequently neither consistent nor coincidental.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022

Even comics without star power who have set off furors, like Sam Morril and Kurt Metzger, are doing fine.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2015

Their chosen speakers lashed them into fresh furors of patriotism while they waited.

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray