jolt
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“I made the decision because I feel like our team hasn’t played consistent enough. We’ve underperformed,” Holland, who hoped the move would jolt the team, said at the time of the change.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
Analyst Bradley Thomas said that suggests there is a risk that consumers will start pulling back on discretionary spending in the current quarter, after the positive jolt provided by higher tax refunds passes.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
The quarter began with one jolt to the oil market—the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro—only to end with one far larger: a weekslong conflict with Iran that shut down a key global maritime chokepoint.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Memory and data-storage stocks received a jolt last week when Alphabet’s Google unveiled TurboQuant, an artificial-intelligence memory compression algorithm.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
I jolt up, scrambling to close my email.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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