How to Use backlash in a Sentence

backlash

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  • This led to a backlash from critics over surveillance, bias, and privacy.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Her father, Jamie Spears, managed the conservatorship and was the subject of intense fan backlash at the time.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Owners and trainers hope that will assuage concerns by lawmakers and regulators and discourage the kind of backlash that would hinder growth of the sport.
    — Contessa Brewer, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Costco doubles down on ‘wokeness’ while ignoring Bud Light backlash.
    — Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The Yeezy debt adds to Ye's financial troubles, which have mounted as a backlash over his recent antisemitic comments costs him business deals.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Sey has achieved this despite frequent backlash and harassment from critics, and even having her brand completely banned from TikTok in June.
    — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Biden administration has previously faced backlash for its treatment of Haitian migrants.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Unfazed by the threat of potential backlash in her incoming year as a guard at her dream school, the University of Connecticut, Paige even hit the streets to protest the killing.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 14 Dec. 2022
  • So much for a post-strikes backlash against the streamers!
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And Garth Brooks has something to say about the Bud Light backlash.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 June 2023
  • The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The backlash appeared to have caught Bud Light by surprise.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • The show has prompted backlash and support from those on both sides of the issue.
    — Jon Brown, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • On the other there were the people ticked off by the knowledge that there was any backlash at all.
    — Richard Lawler, The Verge, 16 May 2024
  • In 2018, Wu opened up about backlash she's faced for dating non-Asian men.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But by the 1980s, backlash to these goals was ascendant.
    — Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Auburn’s hiring of Freeze came with its share of backlash from fans and outsiders alike.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2023
  • This time, the backlash against Biden’s buyback tax took me by surprise.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
  • With Wayne slamming the backlash against Belichick, some fans flipped his words against him.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2024
  • To be sure, there is little coherence to the backlash against EVs.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Will there be more outrage, protests and backlash on Oct. 7, less than a month out from Election Day?
    — Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The move has prompted backlash from civil rights groups.
    — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The ensuing backlash wasn’t just the result of a rabid fan base.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The backlash and cases like Cox’s raise a couple of key questions: Do pro-life laws change the culture?
    — Nicole Russell, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Musk’s own attempts to respond to the backlash went poorly.
    — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 5 June 2024
  • Some have posited that the tensions at Giant Rock may be fueled, in part, by the same kind of backlash.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • And nowhere has seen more backlash to date than little Bal Harbour.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The airline then walked back some of those changes after facing backlash.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2023
  • But there has been a backlash in recent years against the groups, which tend to oppose big changes and ambitious projects.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The danger, though, is how intense the backlash is at the moment, especially against the elites and the technocrats.
    — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023

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