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If the network threatened to pull the plug on a given cable operator over fee negotiations, sports-mad subscribers would practically riot in the streets!

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The designer Maruti Evans illustrates the contrast effectively, the icy marble and barren trees of Sicilia transformed into a riot of colorful flora.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

It said soldiers had entered a house in the village to search for suspects throwing stones, and separately, that they had detained one person taking part in what it called a "violent riot".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

“Prepare to get dizzy,” said Teri Lauenstein, revealing the primary bathroom, a riot of teal, orange, cream and yellow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Did they think they were going to start a riot or something?

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

The broadcaster has previously apologised for editing together two different sections of the speech he gave before the 2021 Capitol riots.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Vietnam, inner-city riots, and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had cast a pall over the Day-Glo optimism of the Love Generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The court heard the operation to police the riots had cost South Wales Police "in excess of £1m" and the clean-up had cost Cardiff council £28,515.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Indeed, what now looks like nightly riots began with reports of maggot-infested and spoiled food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

In the years immediately following the events in Washington, Chicago, and Elaine, it became increasingly clear that, rather than be diminished by the riots, African Americans were emboldened by them.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

The rate of pupils missing school has spiked near to where people rioted for several nights in Ballymena, the education minister has said.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

Dunn said officers wanted acknowledgment for those members of law enforcement who were present at the insurrection, as well as accountability from those who rioted.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025

In October 1962, federal marshals escorted Meredith as he enrolled as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi, while white people rioted on the Oxford campus.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

Caught between the collapse of wages and the loss of land, peasants rioted across Europe.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

And it must have been, because the weeds rioted everywhere.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

I have covered disorder in Northern Ireland for more than a decade now, including last summer when rioting erupted in Ballymena.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Amid rioting, the shah fled Iran once again on Jan. 16, 1979, never to return.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

They would be elderly people rioting, but they would still riot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

HIs performance was uneven as unrest turned into rioting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

If these kids took a minute to ask themselves where Cap got off writing thousand-dollar checks, they’d be rioting, not applauding.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman