shocked
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Appeared in the December 24, 2025, print edition as 'The Sudden Breakup That’s Shocked All of Tennis'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Shocked quartz has long been recognized as a sign of extreme heat and pressure from cosmic impacts.
From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025
Shocked, many then uttered the same words we've heard over and over today too: "This sort of thing just doesn't happen here".
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
Shocked by the lack of education she received from healthcare practitioners about such a tumultuous stage of her life, Fadal started researching menopause and educating women online about her findings.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025
Shocked because we were hearing about it just like that.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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