uproar
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The uproar at her eviction triggered national demonstrations, with hundreds of people camping in central Madrid's Puerta del Sol square in the most symbolic protest.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
This followed uproar in the EU after Spain's Ministry of the Interior awarded Chinese tech giant Huawei a €12.3m contract to store and manage sensitive judicial wiretap data last year.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
By the weekend, his post had sparked such an uproar that the top AI labs were calling for an industry slowdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
About 700 miles away around the same time, a momentary greeting between New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at ground zero became a dayslong online uproar.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
He had been expecting a religious uproar, hadn’t he?
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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