: a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance
Examples of uproar in a Sentence
There was a lot of public uproar over the proposed jail.
There have been uproars in the past over similar proposals.
The proposal caused an uproar.
The town was in an uproar over the proposal to build a jail.
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Netanyahu tells Trump Israel will eliminate trade deficit and barriers with U.S.
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the White House amid reciprocal tariffs uproar, and the president addresses a wide range of questions.
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Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Photo: Raul Martinez The protests follow Trump’s ongoing slashing of the federal workforce, as well as his tariff announcement earlier this week, which prompted an uproar and caused the stock market to plummet.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2025
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The vote sets the stage for back-to-back Senate all-nighters into the weekend.
—South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025
The schools were renamed Mountain View and Honey Run in 2020 amid the national uproar over the murder of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a police officer in Minneapolis.
—Derek H. Alderman, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2025
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Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Photo: Raul Martinez The protests follow Trump’s ongoing slashing of the federal workforce, as well as his tariff announcement earlier this week, which prompted an uproar and caused the stock market to plummet.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2025
Florida couple goes all in Politics Republicans moving ahead with Trump’s ‘big’ bill of tax breaks and spending cuts amid tariff uproar
The vote sets the stage for back-to-back Senate all-nighters into the weekend.
—South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025
The schools were renamed Mountain View and Honey Run in 2020 amid the national uproar over the murder of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a police officer in Minneapolis.
—Derek H. Alderman, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Uproar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uproar. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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uproar
noun
up·roar
ˈəp-ˌrō(ə)r 
-ˌrȯ(ə)r
: a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance
Etymology
from Dutch oproer "revolt, uprising," from op "up" and roer "motion"; the English spelling and meaning influenced by the similarity of the English roar to Dutch roer
Word Origin
The -roar part of the word uproar has no connection with the sounds made by some animals and crowds. The first use of uproar was as the translation of the Dutch word oproer, meaning "uprising, rebellion, revolt." Thus, the first meaning of uproar was the same as the Dutch meaning of oproer. Nowadays, this sense of uproar is no longer used. Because people thought that the roar of uproar referred to loud cries and sounds, they began to use the word to mean "a noisy disturbance or commotion." This is the sense of uproar that has survived.
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