ruckus
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Surely you’ve heard about it by now—the ruckus over deliberate losing and the lengths to which teams go to get a shot at a top draft pick.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Those renovations raised a brief ruckus over the summer after Administration officials such as Russ Vought of the Office of Management and Budget accused the Fed of running over budget on a needlessly grandiose project.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
The ending, including a diminished-chord twist, is pretty pat, if happier than one might imagine given the ruckus that’s gone before.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2025
Efforts to silence people who create a ruckus suggest that “the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master.”
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025
But when he reads the last name on the list it causes a big ruckus.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Vocabulary lists containing ruckus
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