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shocking

[shok-ing] / ˈʃɒk ɪŋ /


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"It would have been shocking to me," said Rubio, who has not been implicated in any wrongdoing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The officers shared the shocking recording this week in hopes of identifying the driver, whose license plate cannot be discerned in the clip.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

So often are these charges true that it can feel shocking when we encounter conceptual work that truly lands, that elevates its subject matter in a way that makes it deeply resonant without preaching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The implications of all this research are shocking.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

In the mid-1920s a German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, saw that these equations had a shocking consequence: uncertainly.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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