outrage
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But in the meantime, such incidents risk becoming workaday stories that no longer inspire widespread outrage.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
But the tape drew outrage from Bush’s female colleagues at NBC News.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
It has also prompted public outrage as to how a fugitive father, who had three children with him, could have evaded authorities for so long.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
In 2024 he released "Hind's Hall," which pays tribute to Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl whose death sparked a wave of international outrage.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
On the other, there is outrage at the entire concept.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Years later, similar outrages have come to light and government officials will have a harder time finding someone to blame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
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
Briony had heard her mother and sister analyze the latest twists and outrages, charges and countercharges, and she knew her cousins' visit was an open-ended one, and might even extend into term time.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
While Griffin and fellow business leaders were outraged by the stunt, Mamdani’s poll numbers haven’t suffered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
When Peters was sentenced, Trump declared himself outraged.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Canadians became outraged over the weekend as a number of companies and government organizations in Ontario and elsewhere displayed “Lake America” on their websites, as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
It’s common for lawmakers and advocacy groups to fire off outraged letters about a company’s alleged wrongdoing.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
An outraged Curtis wasted no time in charging the eight new officers heading up the union with insubordination.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
In the months since, he has expanded the deployments of troops to US cities, outraging critics.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Russia enacted a similar law that year, outraging women’s rights advocates.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Kian Withers, of James Street, Lurgan, admitted committing an act outraging public decency.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
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
"I verily believe the Revolution has not inflicted us with anything more outraging to good taste than the air of 'Viva Pio Nono.'"
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
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