cold turkey
Example Sentences
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It was after tallying my December spending that I finally deleted them cold turkey in January.
From Salon • Mar. 3, 2026
“It was terrifying. You can’t just go cold turkey on these things,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
If you’re trying to scale back on social media, maybe limit yourself to 15 minutes a day, instead of going cold turkey.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024
But I also told people that I had just gone off my meds cold turkey, which is how I learned that the exact same thing had happened to a lot of them too.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2023
In the evening, as the sky and most of the land turned red, they sat together eating cold turkey drumsticks and wearing green-shaded glasses to watch the lava burn.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
