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outcry

[aut-krahy, aut-krahy] / ˈaʊtˌkraɪ, ˌaʊtˈkraɪ /


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The European Union's central data regulator on Tuesday said smart glasses should give "clear warnings" when they are recording, after a public outcry in recent months over secretly filmed footage of girls and women.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

As outcry over the incident grew online, the city issued a follow-up statement just hours later, saying it “understands the concern and sadness this reported incident has caused throughout our community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The proposals triggered an outcry across many parts of the criminal justice world, with many opponents saying that eroding the 800-year-old right to trial by jury would not solve the backlogs.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

A series of high-profile attacks that began in mid-July has drawn international outcry and rare condemnation from Israel’s leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Following the outcry over the Lusitania, Germany imposed strict limitations on submarine operations, pledging to warn those on board a vessel about to be attacked so they could abandon ship beforehand.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Such public outcries and legal challenges are likely to follow in the other nations preparing to pass their own age-verification mandates—and that’s exactly where the energy needs to be directed.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026

When the airline shed its plastic boarding passes, or its row-facing-row lounge seating, there were minor outcries, Jordan said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

It came as many police departments nationwide have changed the way they respond to certain calls, including those involving mentally ill people — in response to outcries over police killings.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

The #OscarsSoWhite outcries from 2015 and 2016, prompted by all-white slates of acting nominees, continue to reverberate at the academy, which has been trying to diversify its membership by race, gender and nationality.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

The room erupted in outcries of anger and dismay.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

"This triggered the victim's memory and he immediately outcried to his parents."

From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 27, 2014

"After the St. John's County Sheriff's Office investigated one of their own, my family outcried along with the public to get an outside investigation," Crites said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2014

How can I live to die some other tide, And, dying, hear my loveless name outcried About the portals of that weary land Whereby my shadowy feet should come to stand.

From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by William Morris

I think the woman in Thee outcried the man.'

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett

You've far outcried the latest cry— Out Monet-ed Monet.

From Songs Of The Road by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

There was a great outcrying and trembling of hearts at the farm-house when Donald and Elspie appeared in this sorry plight of torn and burned clothes, blackened faces, scorched and singed hair.

From Between Whiles by Helen Hunt Jackson

It would die down for an instant, in response to these appeals, only to burst out afresh as certain groups of traders started the pandemonium again, by the wild outcrying of their offers.

From The Pit by Frank Norris


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