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Recent Examples of cri de coeurThere’s no finger-wagging, no righteous accusation or earnest cri de coeur.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
8 May 2026 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.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
15 Sep. 2025 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 Signed by 150 winemakers and members of the wine trade, the cri de coeur called for Spain’s wine regions to recognize a classification system that took the quality of individual villages and vineyard sites into account—like that of Burgundy’s.—
Mike Desimone,
Robb Report,
31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cri de coeur
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protest
Noun
The protests were met by a brutal government crackdown and spiraled into a 14-year civil war that ended with Assad’s ouster in a lightning rebel offensive.
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CNN Money,
CNN Money,
11 Aug. 2026
The recent student protests across India were a reminder of the growing influence of Gen Z in the country.