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outrage

[aut-rayj] / ˈaʊt reɪdʒ /




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He also expressed outrage when Trump referred to Andrews as “Annie Trannie” and falsely described her record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Exit polls showed there is public outrage about corruption, and that corruption drove so much of this voting behavior.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

But after the outrage over shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by immigration agents in Minneapolis in January prompted the White House to roll back the policy, he has kept a lower profile.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

In Sierra Vista, Ann Nichols, 72 and a Democratic-leaning independent, could scarcely get the words out fast enough as she cataloged her outrage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

A fox had been going about its life here, and some humans had obliterated that life—wasn’t that enough of an outrage?

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

But it’s just as much about journalistic malpractice, ethical outrages and the besmearing of reputations on the flimsiest of evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

It reveals an American elite blinded to outrages occurring in plain view, due to the clubby nature of high society.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025

In an interview with historian Brian Harrison in the 1970s, Jessie recalled the so-called "pillar box outrages" were planned "with military precision."

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025

The full list of outrages is too long to list here, and I assume that most informed readers know about most of them.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

It was then that he decided to review the titles to land that went back a hundred years and he discovered the legalized outrages of his brother, José Arcadio.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Like fame, everybody is outraged for 15 minutes, and there is nothing Americans love more than the comeback story.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

"We are outraged because even I, as the minister responsible for this sector, was not informed."

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

"Last night I went to bed incredibly frustrated, outraged, ashamed that no one is telling us anything."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said he was outraged by the recordings and had spoken to the injured man, Ricardo Gonzalez, who is a former longtime city employee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The destruction of Prophet’s Town outraged Indigenous peoples all over the Ohio Country.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

In the months since, he has expanded the deployments of troops to US cities, outraging critics.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

The court also rejected calls for Husain, then in exile, to be summoned and asked to explain his paintings, which were accused of outraging religious sentiments and disturbing national integrity.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025

Russia enacted a similar law that year, outraging women’s rights advocates.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

A controlled burn in Calaveras Big Trees State Park has badly damaged a pair of giant sequoias named ‘the Orphans,’ outraging community members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

Nero paid the penalty of outraging the conventional prejudices of the Roman.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill


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