culture shock
Example Sentences
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It was a huge and, for many Imagineers, unwelcome culture shock.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
This culture shock played out a different way with the students Tran taught English to in Vietnam.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025
It was the biggest culture shock of my life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Clarke feared dropping people from the Midwest and South into L.A.’s traffic-clogged sprawl would be such a culture shock, he’d lose his best engineers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2025
Another malady suffered by the Berkeley transplants was severe culture shock.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
