cold turkey
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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
According to medical literature and former patients, some programs, including CHOP, wean children off medications—including narcotics, antidepressants, steroids, and seizure medications—or encourage them to stop cold turkey.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2025
I went cold turkey, I don’t know how I did it.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
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
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