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present participle of shock
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Recent Examples of shocking
Adjective
Although the price tags are shocking, few families pay the full tab. Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2025 With a shocking and negative update on the labor market from earlier this month, a spiking inflation report for July would have put those two factors at even greater odds. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
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In the show’s two signature numbers, both of them Norma’s declarations of her own worthiness, Scherzinger stands at center stage and belts with shocking vocal power and agility, surrounded by purgatorial swirls of smoke and blown out by that Lloydian white light. Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024 But rather than play up the murders’ shocking gore or give momentum to Lois’ investigation, the first few episodes are content to linger in the investigator’s ennui. Alison Herman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for shocking
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shocking
Adjective
  • While there have been some rumblings about Paramount on Reddit chat groups like Wall Street Bets, there hasn’t been anything like the Covid frenzy that boosted AMC Entertainment, GameStop and numerous other stocks to startling levels.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In 1956, the American geologist M. King Hubbert made a startling prediction: In a matter of decades, the supply of fuel on which so much of modern society depended would dwindle.
    Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • What to know about the committee’s investigation into Epstein. 'Like a horror movie' Exhausting, terrifying and like something out of a horror movie.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • These Phillies have faced various forms of adversity in recent years, and none of it rises to this — their ace sidelined by a terrifying blood clot six weeks from the start of another postseason filled with great expectations.
    Matt Gelb, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The brazen and aggressive manhandling of Senator Padilla by the Trump administration is a sickening disgrace.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
  • The practice is one of a sickening array of battlefield mistreatments recorded on video either by Ukrainian surveillance drones or Russian servicemen and then circulated on social media.
    Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
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  • The gruesome deaths of the two beloved teens shook and forever changed the small Indiana community.
    Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The list includes redshirt junior nose tackle Jamari Lyons, back from a gruesome ankle injury, athletic 6-foot-2 ½, 244-pound sophomore linebacker Aaron Chiles and redshirt cornerback Cormani McClain.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • That being said, a new update has shared a potential surprising outcome to the situation.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025
  • When Janssen asked why, the man had a surprising answer.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Amy Madigan’s striking performance is both funny and frightening, her witch an ancient, otherworldly being that only really understands power.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Chad Michael Murray's journey to acting began with a frightening trip to the hospital.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Kruse and her co-conspirators are now on their fourth different set of lawyers in this dispute, and this is a disgusting publicity stunt by new counsel, as evidenced by the fact that the complaint and press release were sent to the press before the complaint was served.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The series sets the various human and humanoid segments of its cast on a direct course with the distinctly inhuman alien flora and fauna on the ship – there are some inventive little monsters aboard, disgusting and harrowing in their own special ways – to great effect.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Yogurt Shop Murders is based on a true story of a horrific crime back in 1991, one that many people may not have heard of.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The situation for the hostages is absolutely horrific as well.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2025

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“Shocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shocking. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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