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as in roar
a violent shouting an uproar arose from the crowd when it was announced that the concert was cancelled and refunds might not be available

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Recent Examples of uproar After an uproar from the Toronto Jewish community, Toronto reached an agreement with Avrich over security and footage clearance concerns to allow the reinstatement of the film in the official lineup. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025 Imagine how much uproar there would have been had the work in question not only depicted a trans woman but been created by one. Grace Byron, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 The announcement sparked uproar among local historian and archivists. Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025 The uproar led to an internal investigation. Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for uproar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uproar
Noun
  • The commotion has come as a surprise to Cooke, who didn’t foresee her role as such a divisive one.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The child’s father had arrived home shortly before the incident occurred and heard a commotion in the bedroom, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by KSAT.
    TJ Macias, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Buyback frenzy — But plenty of companies are profiting like crazy off the AI boom—so why has Ellison profited so uniquely enormously?
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • While earlier incidents against Jewish sites, coming amid the backlash over the soaring death toll in Israel’s conflict in Gaza, sparked a media frenzy around this particularly act of brazen antisemitism, the pigs’ heads did not have the same effect.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At some point, everyone faces upheaval; a layoff, a health scare, a collapsing industry, or simply the gnawing sense that the old way isn’t working anymore.
    Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This event triggered a massive upheaval in the global financial markets and signaled the intensification of the 2008 financial crisis.
    Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Not with a whimper but with a siren wail that long ago converted to white noise in our collective hearing; a global tinnitus like the hum of a fridge; the quiet roar of the Greenland ice sheet slipping into the Musk Ocean.
    Reuven Perlman, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • There are more and more people on the other side of the glass, the sound like a sea’s roar outside.
    Sara Stridsberg September 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical disturbance in the central Atlantic for potential development this week.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Kp is an index used to indicate the severity of the global magnetic disturbances in near-Earth space, NOAA said.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Set two years after the little robot lady went on a murderous rampage and was subsequently destroyed, M3GAN’s creator Gemma (Williams) has become a high-profile author and advocate for government oversight of AI.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara condemned the rampage and said the repeat offender endangered the public.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nepal’s current bout of political unrest started in early September, when a group of young Nepalis, fed up with seeing politicians’ children posting about their designer handbags and luxury travel while most people struggle to make ends meet, organized a peaceful protest.
    Sugam Pokharel, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • International headlines often paint Haiti as a nation gripped by crisis — from political unrest and economic hardship to uncertainty about the future and unruly crime.
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Additionally, pollution accumulation and vessel noise disrupt their echolocation abilities, making hunting increasingly difficult.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This helps to break through the noise and build credibility.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Uproar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uproar. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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