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McDougall’s book is, among other things, a cri de coeur.—Marina Harss, New Yorker, 3 June 2026 There’s no finger-wagging, no righteous accusation or earnest cri de coeur.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 May 2026 In a recent cri de coeur, Megan Fritts, a philosophy professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, detailed how her own institution has not articulated clear, campus-wide guidance on AI use.—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025 Even establishment news channels, generally averse to displaying the humanity of individual Palestinians, could not resist this cri de coeur of an innocent in peril.—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cri de coeur