protest
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Shaw has showed up at track meets to protest Hernandez’s participation — which Hernandez’s mother has called threatening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The protest involved dozens of people walking on public footpaths and then going through a gap in the metal fencing around the site to access the private land.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Ned Ludd was the fabled hero of the early-19th-century Luddites, who smashed stocking frames—knitting machines for socks—and burned factories to protest job-destroying technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The protest was organized by the Catholic Church along with business leaders and families of missing persons.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Oslak growled a protest but Hord warned him back.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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I must have missed their protests against almonds and golf courses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Xi's visit was the target of protests by dozens of Tibetans in New Delhi, exiles like their Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since fleeing a Chinese crackdown in 1959.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
In just under three months, 30-year-old Abhijeet Dipke - the founder and face of India's Gen Z "cockroach" protests - has acquired the kind of celebrity status normally reserved for a breakout actor or cricketer.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Thousands of people are expected at protests in Dublin and a protest will also be held in Doonbeg.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“That’s ridiculous,” I said, but my complaint was drowned out by the growing protests of the caravan.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Irish President Catherine Connolly, a longtime critic of Trump who protested his previous presidential visit in 2019, met privately with the president Saturday.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
On Thursday, 120 taxi drivers in the eastern province of Kerman protested a cut in their allocation of subsidized fuel, according to the Union of Truckers and Drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Tung era reached low points in July 2003 when 500,000 people protested against restrictive anti-subversion laws proposed by China, and again a year later when about the same number rallied for democracy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Thousands of people have protested in cities across Spain over the government's handling of the influx of migrants to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north African coast.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Elizabeth protested, “when there’s so much trouble with France?”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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Let’s see Erin Brockovich, or Julia Roberts for that matter, protesting in a spacesuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
He was expelled from Prairie View A&M University in 1971 after protesting against the expulsion of the editor of the student newspaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
On the ground, though, the people protesting in Albania are against something much bigger.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
In a reflection of public concern, the meeting on the campus of University of North Carolina was met with about 100 to 200 people protesting AI's fast development.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The township was in a constant state of insurrection; someone was always marching or protesting somewhere and had to be suppressed.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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