brouhaha

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  • Following up on the QueryFail brouhaha, my fine colleague Erin Murphy (an agent) comes in with an example of someone who roundly deserves any finger pointing that comes his way.
  • In response to all the brouhaha, the Air Force launched an investigation of its own UFO operation. —  Omni: March 1995
  • In a final footnote to the brouhaha, the newspaper had interviewed Stoker. —  BEN BOVA
  • Coming in the wake of the Reverend Wright brouhaha, and nominally meant to dispel notions that he might be an angry black man ready to wreak vengeance against whites, this speech was about getting us to understand each other and work toward solving problems together. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • After all that brouhaha, the ethnic divisions were history by episode three.
 

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