shocking
Example Sentences
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Park’s approach may be pleasingly shocking, but it isn’t always novel.
From Los Angeles Times
Nine months later, however, Chambliss isn’t just playing—he has become college football’s most shocking breakout, pushing Ole Miss to the doorstep of its first national championship in six decades.
As independent journalism comes under increasing threat worldwide, a trio of Oscar-shortlisted documentaries offer revealing perspectives on risk-taking reportage that challenges institutional power with hard and often shocking facts.
From Los Angeles Times
Slaughter called it a "shocking admission", while Irranca Davies said the priorities didn't mean that there was not "relentless focus" on education standards.
From BBC
She said the Committee found the OSA to be "woefully inadequate" and called it "a shocking example of how UK citizens are left unprotected whilst social media companies act with impunity".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
