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  • noun Plural form of furor.

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Examples

  • And then there are the recent furors over T.S. Eliot's anti-Semitism.

    Oh, to Be In England Steven Amarnick 2011

  • So explains K. Prasad Venkatesh, chief of infotronics research and advanced engineering for Ford Motor, a company not slowing down its drive into the digital age, even amid current furors about distracted driving or the reliability of competitor Toyota's electronics.

    Living With the Electronic Car Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

  • In a sprawling article surveying the 2010 election cycle in Colorado, USA Today noted that Buck, a favorite of the Tea Party and other right-wing groups, "seems to be sliding to the center" in an effort to "sidestep some of the furors that have trailed other Tea Party-backed Senate contenders."

    Ken Buck Tells USA Today He'd Consider A Path To Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants 2010

  • So explains K. Prasad Venkatesh, chief of infotronics research and advanced engineering for Ford Motor, a company not slowing down its drive into the digital age, even amid current furors about distracted driving or the reliability of competitor Toyota's electronics.

    Living With the Electronic Car Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

  • So explains K. Prasad Venkatesh, chief of infotronics research and advanced engineering for Ford Motor, a company not slowing down its drive into the digital age, even amid current furors about distracted driving or the reliability of competitor Toyota's electronics.

    Living With the Electronic Car Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

  • In a sprawling article surveying the 2010 election cycle in Colorado, USA Today noted that Buck, a favorite of the Tea Party and other right-wing groups, "seems to be sliding to the center" in an effort to "sidestep some of the furors that have trailed other Tea Party-backed Senate contenders."

    Ken Buck Tells USA Today He'd Consider A Path To Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants 2010

  • After the campaigns or furors are over, he said, the stories hang together, “except, obviously, for the bit about Gore.”

    Newsies! | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Both also ran headlong into racist forces that threatened to derail their careers, and both sparked furors when they married white men.

    Leslie Ugghams to Play Lena Horne Jan 2009

  • BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: When a crisis hits, there's all too often a lurch from shock to trance, with everyone responding to the tempest of the moment until the furors die down and the media coverage has moved on to something else.

    CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2009 2009

  • The GOP continues its spiral of death by manufacturing pseudo-furors about issues that do not resonate with mainstream America, and help solve none of our pressing problems.

    Jeff Schweitzer: Learn Me Some Good Schooling 2009

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