jolting

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The outage at QatarEnergy, the world’s largest LNG exporter, has in turn knocked offline the No. 1 global supplier of helium, while blunting regional fertilizer exports and jolting aluminum production.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Women ride past on donkey carts, piled high with vegetables, jolting over potholes deep enough to trap a wheel.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Goldberg told BBC News the company's counter-suit was "jolting".

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

Like Christmas, they happened once a year, jolting us out of our daily grind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Her spear caught between two trees and brought her to a jolting halt before she wrenched it free and kept running.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer