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outrage

[aut-rayj] / ˈaʊt reɪdʒ /




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The lengthy sentences for the men, still largely viewed as heroes in the country, sparked outrage in the Balkan nation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

The ensuing protests were violent and costly and worried many of us, not because we agreed with Mr. Yiannopoulos, but because outrage over ideas had turned students against each another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

But he was riding the momentum of his outrage on Thyon’s behalf, and the flush of solidarity from one beaten boy for another, and above all, the thrill of discovery.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

To the media and to outraged internet commentators, it didn’t matter that two-thirds of Latino men had responded that each of those three issues was “very important” or “somewhat important.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The younger man emerges from this labyrinth of court proceedings and outraged amour-propre in the worst possible light.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

Then he ran away with Miss Lark’s angry, outraged voice screaming in his ears, and his body almost bursting with the exciting weight of that heavy thing inside him.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

However, after he was later picked out of a police line up the odds were stacked against him, and, on 28 March 2023, he was found guilty at Barnsley Magistrates' Court of outraging public decency.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024

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

Materialism is the murderous outlaw of the age, an enemy that goes bullying through the land, outraging our finer natures, overturning our ideals, polluting our ambitions.

From Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead




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