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
The ruckus began after Christian Braun fouled Harden with 6.6 seconds left in the second quarter, causing a lot of pushing and shoving.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 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
The row also moved off social media and a discussion about the show and the after-party caused a ruckus in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025
This would get the little fish riled up, they’d bump at the flies and try to pull ’em under and would raise a ruckus that’d make the big fish wonder what the commotion was for.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Mayhem! Chaos! Pandemonium!
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