How to Use shock jock in a Sentence
shock jock
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Last week’s episode focused on the rise and fall of Howard Stern and other radio shock jocks.
—Mike Rose, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2023
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Prank calls have long been the domain of of radio shock jocks and bored juveniles.
—Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 29 June 2018
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The radio shock jock Howard Stern once played a clip of a voicemail message from Gottfried.
—NBC News, 12 Apr. 2022
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The controversial shock jock died this past week at 79.
—Robert Forster, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2019
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Imus engaged in a long-running feud with shock jock Howard Stern, who usurped Imus' position as the No.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2019
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The shock jock might be less forthcoming about his personal wealth.
—Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
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Williams began her career in radio and gained renown for her role as a shock jock on New York’s Hot 97 radio station.
—Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
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Imus frequently sparred with fellow shock jock Howard Stern, who usurped Imus' position as the No.
—Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2019
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The Norm established Sorokin as a provocateur, a shock jock of late Soviet letters.
—Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
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Some American cognoscenti have since treated Wolfe as somehow suspect: a shock jock with a poet’s command of the language.
—Janan Ganesh, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2017
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There were never any shock jock antics, no anger, indignation, or sarcasm.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2020
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Corona also got into an on-air argument with Howard Stern after the shock jock made disparaging comments about the death of Selena.
—Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 18 Nov. 2019
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That same morning Howard Stern interviewed Buress on his radio show, and the shock jock made the most of the controversy to promote Hannibal’s appearance.
—Longreads, 7 June 2019
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Radio shock jock Alex Jones permanently banned from Twitter.
—Fox News, 8 Sep. 2018
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Conservative shock jock Rush Limbaugh railed against the document.
—Melanie Mason, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
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Howard Stern is breaking his silence after a 1993 sketch showing the radio shock jock repeatedly using the N-word in blackface has resurfaced online.
—Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
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One question triggered a tense exchange between Vice President Kamala Harris and a radio shock jock.
—Rick Klein, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2021
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At the height of tensions over the theater, Abbate posted a message on the marquee mourning the death of Rush Limbaugh, an early shock jock known for demonizing Democrats, feminists and the gay community.
—Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2021
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Driscoll was the shock jock of American evangelicalism, never far from a controversy.
—Kirsten Powers, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017
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Legendary radio shock jock Don Imus is generating controversy even in death.
—NBC News, 6 Jan. 2020
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Charlamagne, the show’s most recognizable personality, got his start in South Carolina and later became a protege of shock jock Wendy Williams.
—Washington Post, 17 July 2019
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In the hands of a lesser storyteller, we would be encouraged to instantly dislike Birdie for her selfishness and repeated political incorrectness, and Duke for his lib-owning shock jock persona.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
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Hubbard's opponents -- including conservative British shock jock Piers Morgan -- argue that being a transgender woman, or a woman who was assigned male at birth, gives her an unfair physical advantage.
—Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 3 July 2021
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Akademiks, who previously streamed on Twitch, embodies the conservative shock jock as a reductive, adversarial, patriarchal figure, resolute on amplifying the worst stereotypes of Black people.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
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