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  • noun Plural form of brouhaha.

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Examples

  • These bunch of brouhahas brokered by some brutish blokes from the GOP do not make much sense.

    Health care town halls will press on, could get heated 2009

  • Already this year, its operations in Indonesia have been embroiled in two headline-grabbing brouhahas: the alleged embezzlement of millions of dollars by an employee and the death of a client allegedly at the hands of debt collectors hired by Citi.

    Citi's Asian Reputation Needs a Makeover James Simms 2011

  • A year later, her affair with Eddie Fisher became one of the great media brouhahas of the 1950s because Fisher was married to Debbie Reynolds, a squeaky-clean movie queen and a bigger star then than Ms. Taylor.

    Film Legend Meshed Stardom With Her Roller-Coaster Life Stephen Miller 2011

  • Even with all the talk of the new shows, Fox's Reilly spent much of his time downplaying the various brouhahas surrounding Glee this summer.

    Critic's TCA Notebook: That's a Wrap 2011

  • Instead, he inexplicably devotes many pages to a litany of brouhahas among Europe's competing empires for overseas influence.

    Discovering America Anew Charles C. Mann 2011

  • The studios themselves often have an "outreach program" in which executives are assigned to review scripts and characters with representatives from these groups, evaluate their complaints, and attempt to avoid potential brouhahas.

    The Corporate Exec: Hollywood Demon Edward Jay Epstein 2011

  • Many tied the controversy to the collective-bargaining brouhahas sweeping Midwestern states like Wisconsin and Ohio, which made many of Maine's moderate Republicans skittish.

    How Bad Art Killed Good Labor Reforms Allysia Finley 2011

  • He tracks brouhahas like the one in Britain a few years ago, when a Labor government official floated the idea of revising an outdated exhortation "to crush" the "rebellious Scots," in an obscure verse of "God Save the Queen."

    Oh, Say, Can You See New Lyrics for This Anthem? Matt Moffett 2011

  • (See here for analysis of the spectrum from blatant stealing -- in writing and music -- to subconscious regurgitation; and here for detailed stories of pop music plagiarism brouhahas.)

    Michael Sigman: Plagiarism: The Words and the Music 2010

  • (See here for analysis of the spectrum from blatant stealing -- in writing and music -- to subconscious regurgitation; and here for detailed stories of pop music plagiarism brouhahas.)

    Plagiarism: The Words and the Music 2010

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