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as in commotion
a state of noisy, confused activity
the classroom was in a furor when the mice escaped from their cage
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as in frenzy
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
euphoric children in a gift-opening furor on Christmas morning
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as in indignation
an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something
residents were in a furor about the new paper mill being constructed within city limits
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Recent Examples of furor
Still, there’s a sense in which much of the furor has less to do with Gallardo than with a viewership that, turning against the artist and unfamiliar with her work’s context, denounced her based on a partial misunderstanding of social practice art.
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Fabiola Iza, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Republished on February 26 with Google’s response to this photo scanning furor.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Emily Cutrer Sonoma State University president causes a furor among students and professors after announcing plans to kill 20 degree programs, six departments and all sports teams to balance the school budget.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
Plans to transform an iconic San Francisco highway into a park ignite recall furor.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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Fabiola Iza, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Republished on February 26 with Google’s response to this photo scanning furor.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Emily Cutrer Sonoma State University president causes a furor among students and professors after announcing plans to kill 20 degree programs, six departments and all sports teams to balance the school budget.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
Plans to transform an iconic San Francisco highway into a park ignite recall furor.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for furor
Noun
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Pilots heard the commotion and turned the flight around back to Savannah, police said.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
12 Mar. 2025
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Naturally, this means that even something as small as a new shade of Pocket Blush is bound to cause tons of commotion—and spoiler alert, that’s exactly what happened after Hailey’s recent date night routine.—
Kleigh Balugo,
StyleCaster,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Big Tech stocks and companies that rode the artificial intelligence frenzy in recent years have slumped sharply.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2025
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The meal concluded with a luscious pavlova, but the conversation lingered well into the night, as the fashion week frenzy charged ahead toward its final stretch of shows and soirées.—
Kristen Bateman,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 2025
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Vance’s speech spurred the Europeans to unite in their indignation.—
Simon Shuster/Berlin,
TIME,
22 Feb. 2025
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If Jude’s previous two fiction films were Molotov cocktails of indignation, his latest secretes a kind of scentless poison that gets at the banality with which social injustices are processed and rationalized.—
Beatrice Loayza,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Spending hike The outlook is meanwhile clouded by a host of factors causing a stir in markets and the economy.—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2025
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The minister insisted no pressure was applied to lift restrictions on the Tates after a Financial Times report on the meeting caused a stir in Romania.—
STEPHEN McGRATH,
TIME,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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After the rampage, fighters began systematically looting and burning homes and stealing cars, Abu Ali and activists said.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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The lawless rampage of the second Trump Administration has already touched everything from rangers at America’s treasured national parks to the very pillars of the decades-old transatlantic alliance.—
Susan B. Glasser,
The New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Press-freedom advocates expressed outrage and alarm.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2025
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Local news outlet 10 News First captured footage of her wildlife interference that sparked international outrage.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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The source of the disturbance was just over a mile deep, experts say.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Mar. 2025
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According to a spokesman from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which investigated the shooting, Independence police responded to a disturbance around 8 p.m. at a home in the 800 block of E. College Street in Independence.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2025
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President Donald Trump has reacted with anger after Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a new 25 percent surcharge on electricity exports to the United States, in response to a wave of tariffs on Canadian goods.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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This has allowed our sibling relationship to remain intact and there is no resentment or anger.—
R. Eric Thomas,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Furor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furor. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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