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jolt

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Despite a year of tumult and a jolt to its ad revenues, Google is as important as ever.

Investors had seen the deal as a huge win for Nikola, by giving it a massive jolt of credibility.

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CASP got the jolt it was looking for when DeepMind entered the competition in 2018 with its first version of AlphaFold.

The jolt is due in part, no doubt, to traders fleeing BitMEX, which has long specialized in such derivatives markets.

From Fortune

Democrats, meanwhile, point to evidence of a jolt of energy on their side.

The whole point of writing for free online, as Justin Hall had shown, was that it produced a jolt of joy.

But the real, unexpected jolt that kicked off the new season was the violent, sudden arrest of Cary.

The decrepit BMD came to a stop with a gear-clanking jolt by the water, and within seconds the soldiers broke out the vodka.

It was the jolt needed to get through the last stretch of the summer.

So, yeah, it was a very big hiccup—one sufficiently large to jolt the heart from its regular beat.

The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterwards the motion was easy enough.

This affords the maximum of riding comfort by the elimination of all jar and jolt occasioned by an uneven roadway.

So the next day after the funeral, along about noon-time, the girls' joy got the first jolt.

Dissertations on literature, science, and philosophy came as an unexpected jolt.

A jolt, and you are descending, grip in hand, upon the platform.

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On this page you'll find 129 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to jolt, such as: bump, punch, reversal, setback, shock, and blow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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