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Recent Examples of blowback
After some blowback, Meech claimed the woman was his cousin, which Walker has consistently pushed back on.
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Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
Despite the blowback to the decision (which Bad Bunny himself joked about when hosting Saturday Night Live earlier this month), Goodell said that the artist knows the importance of the halftime show platform to the league and to popular culture.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
And though many Republicans hate the shutdown, the leader is not getting internal blowback, either.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Jefferson, too, faced blowback from critics.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
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Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
Despite the blowback to the decision (which Bad Bunny himself joked about when hosting Saturday Night Live earlier this month), Goodell said that the artist knows the importance of the halftime show platform to the league and to popular culture.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
And though many Republicans hate the shutdown, the leader is not getting internal blowback, either.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Jefferson, too, faced blowback from critics.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blowback
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Stause also had a fallout with her best friend Emma Hernan after her new boyfriend made deplorable comments about the LGBTQ+ community.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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The rarity of the mechanism means that legal and political challenges would be expected, and the fallout could reshape city and state politics.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In countries where films have been reduced to mere by-products of the wider audiovisual industry, cinema itself faces an existential threat.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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Adding Tren de Aragua to this particular cause was a by-product of the 2024 Presidential campaign.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The success of the track and the music video has had an unusual side effect.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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That side effect was not seen with ALZ-801, which works by preventing amyloid plaques from forming in the first place.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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The company behind local venue Hi-Fi and its outdoor offshoot the Hi-Fi Annex, MOKB hosts more than 500 events per year and has booked national acts like Alabama Shakes, Tyler Childers and The Lumineers.—
Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
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Days after one of the leads, Michael Michele, and director/executive producer Eriq La Salle left the FBI offshoot, also departing is current showrunner Warren Leight.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Blowback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blowback. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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