shocking
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This was shocking news even to people who knew both Trump and Witkoff.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
But what’s happened since is so shocking that you’d be forgiven for wondering if Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski had been cloned in a lab at MIT.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“That’s the most surprising and shocking part to me,” Burwell said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
At the time, the watchdog called the allegations exposed by Panorama "shocking and deeply disturbing".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He always smiled as though bull-fighting were a very special secret between the two of us; a rather shocking but really very deep secret that we knew about.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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