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jolted

adjective as in shaken

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Like many liberals, Terhune, who spoke by phone from his home on the day after the election, was finding it difficult to reconcile the many ruptures and recriminations that have jolted the country since Trump’s first campaign eight years ago.

Bruce Eric Kaplan started a journal mid-pandemic, hoping to make sense of a world jolted by the vapor trails of Donald Trump’s presidency and COVID-19.

Running out of partners, Salman had 25 from 57 balls and jolted into life.

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The revelation that the “ChiefsAholic” was a criminal jolted a Chiefs fan base that can come to revere Babudar, who said he wore the wolf costume to honor the team’s mascot, KC Wolf.

These were all massive failures five years ago, she said, when five crew members asleep in the wheelhouse on the top deck were jolted awake by shouts of “Fire! Fire!” shortly after 3 a.m.

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

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