shock treatment
Example Sentences
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Or were they swimming with the normative current in order to maintain careers, families, social standing — or, for that matter, to avoid being sent to asylums for shock treatment?
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
After being sworn in last month, President Milei told Argentines that a "shock treatment" would be needed to drag the country out of the economic crisis in which it has been mired.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2024
Oil prices are down around 4% since Wednesday as the shock treatment seemed to take effect.
From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2021
Losing money is a shock treatment they might respond to.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2017
It wasn't the shock treatment that struck me, so much as the bare-faced treachery of Doctor Nolan.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
