cold turkey
Example Sentences
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It was after tallying my December spending that I finally deleted them cold turkey in January.
From Salon • Mar. 3, 2026
“It was terrifying. You can’t just go cold turkey on these things,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
The best thing to do about racism, he posits, is to just give it up, cold turkey, by announcing that we’re all good now.
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2023
"I would be tempted to go cold turkey for a few days, just to really reflect and think about what the best course of action should be."
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2023
In the evening, as the sky and most of the land turned red, they sat together eating cold turkey drumsticks and wearing green-shaded glasses to watch the lava burn.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
