hullabaloo
a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar.
Origin of hullabaloo
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How to use hullabaloo in a sentence
You may recall the hullabaloo in 2017 over some Facebook chatbots that “invented their own language.”
Do AI Systems Really Have Their Own Secret Language? | Aaron J. Snoswell | June 10, 2022 | Singularity HubWith the ongoing hullabaloo about former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn skipping out of Japan to avoid facing criminal charges, it’s easy to forget that this company churns out very impressive and reliable vehicles.
Yet for all the hullabaloo about outside groups, the race may simply come down to old-fashioned retail politics.
All the hullabaloo confused the neophyte rockers, who had only been a band for two years and were searching for their own voice.
Cold War Kids on Faith, Hipster Detractors & Their Musical Evolution | Marlow Stern | April 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was a big hullabaloo during the 2008 presidential election over your relationship to Obama.
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Chris Christie is taking all the hullabaloo about his body fat in stride.
One has to wonder how all this hullabaloo will affect the kids in the long run.
She would miss the car and raise a hullabaloo, and maybe crab the whole thing in the start.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerBut Captain Mayo, pacing under the damp gleam of the riding-light, paid but little heed to the hullabaloo.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayI couldn't understand him, for he spoke his own language, but guessed what was up when I heerd the hullabaloo his words raised.
My Danish Sweetheart, Volume 3 of 3 | William Clark RussellI was camping down below in the woods and each evening heard a hullabaloo, and when awake in the night I heard it.
Watched by Wild Animals | Enos A. MillsThis hullabaloo about no taxation without representation fills the ears of the ignorant.
Rodney, the Ranger | John V. Lane
British Dictionary definitions for hullabaloo
hullaballoo
/ (ˌhʌləbəˈluː) /
loud confused noise, esp of protest; commotion
Origin of hullabaloo
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