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In the months since, he has expanded the deployments of troops to US cities, outraging critics.

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

However, after he was later picked out of a police line up the odds were stacked against him, and, on 28 March 2023, he was found guilty at Barnsley Magistrates' Court of outraging public decency.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024

Russia enacted a similar law that year, outraging women’s rights advocates.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024

A controlled burn in Calaveras Big Trees State Park has badly damaged a pair of giant sequoias named ‘the Orphans,’ outraging community members.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2023

But it is the Cæsarean method of being born again, violating reason, and perhaps outraging nature.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp