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Recent Examples of shocker
The final round of polling ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election continued to show an incredibly close race across seven battleground states — but also included a shocker out of the solidly red Midwest state of Iowa.
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Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
Terrifier 3—Damien Leone’s horror shocker featuring Art the Clown—is new in theaters.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Day 11 of the Olympics brought the final in the women’s 200-meter, knockout play in soccer and basketball, a shocker on the track and more.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
Plastique’s, no shocker, is ginormous and inspired by Vietnamese culture.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 July 2024
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Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
Terrifier 3—Damien Leone’s horror shocker featuring Art the Clown—is new in theaters.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Day 11 of the Olympics brought the final in the women’s 200-meter, knockout play in soccer and basketball, a shocker on the track and more.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
Plastique’s, no shocker, is ginormous and inspired by Vietnamese culture.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shocker
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Bungie recently acknowledged the existence of arguably the worst bug in Destiny 2’s entire history, the revelation that for years now, loot drops have been bugged to make certain perk combinations close to impossible to get, when all combinations were supposedly supposed to be weighted equally.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The 2005 revelation set off a chain of events that led to Pluto’s still-controversial demotion from planet status the following year.Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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In 2001, my father left my mother, my three siblings, and me a surprise inheritance in a Swiss bank account.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Donald Trump’s head-turning pick for attorney general takes some federal officials by surprise.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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After scooping the treble last term, head coach Carlo Ancelotti is struggling to find the best system for his men which includes Mbappe and also makes up for the control in midfield lost by Toni Kroos' shock retirement.Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Selzer poll has been viewed as evidence that pollsters calling the race a dead heat have been acting out of a desire to seek safety in numbers following the shock 2016 election result that failed to spot latent support for Trump.Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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One before-breakfast eye-opener turned into two and pretty soon I was pleasantly jingled.Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 14 Aug. 2024
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The equipment section is an individual-minded eye-opener.Scott Hocker, theweek, 2 Aug. 2024
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Lake hyped the release of the file as a looming bombshell, even though Kate Gallego had long ago endorsed him for the Senate.Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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After an Episode 5 bombshell that Penn herself ordered the attack on a British ship that killed service members, Kate (Keri Russell) is ready to throw her to the wolves — or, at least, the Secretary of State.Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Shocker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shocker. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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