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Conservative former cabinet minister Theresa Villiers highlighted how the death of Cecil the Lion had outraged people across the country.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

The dismissal had outraged the families of the disaster’s victims, who expressed relief after the new indictment was handed down Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2022

That and other issues had outraged trade groups, which complained that they needed a provision for settling disputes to protect their overseas investments from abroad.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2020

As early as 1511, the Dominican monk Fray Antonio de Montesinos had outraged the rulers of Hispaniola by denouncing their treatment of the Indians.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

But reading the record of his trial had outraged me, and I felt that anger returning—not just about the injustice done to Walter but also about the way it had burdened the entire community.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson