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Recent Examples of blowback
Fan blowback to Ludacris’ involvement with a tour, which some view as MAGA-related, was swift.
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Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2026
Its pages are suffused with love for her mother and for the myriad anonymous Chinese sources and academics who help Chang in researching her historical projects — and suffered blowback as a result.
—Emily Feng, NPR, 13 Jan. 2026
Trump, though, seems unbothered by the blowback to his threat to redraw the world’s maps.
—Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
The most viral blowback from the season came after fans spotted a misplaced Starbucks cup in a scene.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 11 Jan. 2026
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Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2026
Its pages are suffused with love for her mother and for the myriad anonymous Chinese sources and academics who help Chang in researching her historical projects — and suffered blowback as a result.
—Emily Feng, NPR, 13 Jan. 2026
Trump, though, seems unbothered by the blowback to his threat to redraw the world’s maps.
—Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
The most viral blowback from the season came after fans spotted a misplaced Starbucks cup in a scene.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 11 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blowback
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When Ginger gets her first period, she is attacked by a deadly werewolf, leaving them both to deal with the fallout.—
Charlie Vargas,
Oc Register,
6 Feb. 2026
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The fallout and controversy from the incident was huge and created an outsized interest in Paul McCartney’s halftime show the following year.—
David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
6 Feb. 2026
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This reaction produces heat and water vapor as by-products, without carbon, nitrogen, or particulate emissions typically associated with fossil fuels.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Farmers can also add specific supplements, such as palmitic acid, a by-product of palm-oil production, to further boost butterfat.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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Zombifying otherwise becomes a side effect of a high dosage.—
Anna Peele,
Vanity Fair,
27 Jan. 2026
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Luckily, a side effect of knuckle cracking is not the bends—or even a case of arthritis.—
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall,
Popular Science,
7 Jan. 2026
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Scott Meslow’s history of the show and all its offshoots is less an analysis of its meaning than a book about the industry mechanisms that shaped and threatened it, and the people who brought it back to life again and again.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2026
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As a member of the student-run group, the Walnut Hills junior helped launch its Ohio offshoot.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Blowback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blowback. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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