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shook up
verb as in upset, unsettle
Example Sentences
Novo Nordisk replaced its chief executive and shook up its board this year.
Tracking the meteoric rise and fall of the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, this electric, eclectic, midcentury biopic impressed critics, shook up the box office and made a star out of Presley proxy Austin Butler.
Read also: Weight-loss drugs shook up the stock market.
The movement certainly shook up the culture at the time, but we are now experiencing a profound backlash.
In 2022, the organization shook up nearly a century of tradition by moving the World Cup from summer to winter, because it was being held in the Gulf state of Qatar.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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