as in roar
a violent shouting
I went to the window to see what the sudden outcry from the street below was about
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Recent Examples of outcry
For two decades now, commissioners have been reluctant to hike the tax rate, a move that typically leads to a fierce public outcry.
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Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
18 June 2026
The Princess of Wales took the outcry in stride as activists booed while her carriage passed with Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, 8, maintaining composure in the moment.
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Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
The Chiefs rally shooting — a highly public event witnessed by hundreds of thousands of fans and lawmakers of both major parties — sparked the loudest outcry for changes to Missouri’s gun laws in recent history.
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Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
The incident sparked outcry from city and state leaders and civil rights groups.
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Ivan Pereira,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
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Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
18 June 2026
The Princess of Wales took the outcry in stride as activists booed while her carriage passed with Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, 8, maintaining composure in the moment.
—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
The Chiefs rally shooting — a highly public event witnessed by hundreds of thousands of fans and lawmakers of both major parties — sparked the loudest outcry for changes to Missouri’s gun laws in recent history.
—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
The incident sparked outcry from city and state leaders and civil rights groups.
—
Ivan Pereira,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcry
Noun
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Gratitude on a stage has rarely seemed more palpable than in Williams basking in the glow of the arena roar; here is someone who, in the spirit of Dylan and the actual words of Doe, has been beyond and back.
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Video taken from Vestavia Hills, a community in central Alabama, showed brown floodwater inundating local streets amid the roar of rain.
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But residents who live near hyperscale centers have expressed outrage over a range of issues, including health impacts, spiking utility bills, constant noise, dropping water pressure and concerns about potentially losing their land through eminent domain.
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Some carried placards and others banged plates, their noise cutting through the crowd protesting and demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.
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“Outcry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcry. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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