shocking
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"It's pretty shocking," Dodemont said from her restaurant in Eupen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
"It's shocking for me that it has come to this."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Patterson and editor Patrick J. Smith interweave scenes of intrigue and shocking violence, take liberties with Amziah’s storytelling asides and give us barn-burning musical sequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
And in May, federal prosecutors dropped a massive indictment against the Broadview Six, a group of Chicago protesters, after grand jury transcripts revealed shocking misconduct.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
She had always regarded the color turquoise, like shocking pink and chartreuse, as the color equivalent of the word ain't: quaint when seldom used but vulgar in great doses.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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