How To Use Shockingly In A Sentence
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The province takes a laissez faire approach in administering the hunting and trapping of wolves in BC, which is based simply on the reproductive potential of the species, and shockingly, without knowledge of wolf numbers.
Chris Genovali: The Death Cults Among Us
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They are shockingly gracile and incredibly long-bodied, with a shape that (when seen in dorsal view) has been likened to that of a champagne flute.
A 6 ton model, and a baby that puts on 90 kg a day: rorquals part I
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The young woman had acquired (right after receiving her fourth -- mandatory -- anthrax shot) a shockingly precipitous mystery disease, eventually diagnosed as a bizarrely speeded-up form of ametropic lateral sclerosis -- she lost in three months the amount of muscle function a middle aged ALS sufferer would lose in four years.
Sheila Weller: In This Case, A Soldier Was Treated Beautifully at Walter Reed
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Mother Clap's Molly House is a camp spectacle reminiscent of music hall and it has some shockingly funny one liners.
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There is a scene in which he must pierce her ears to wear the borrowed earring, and it is shockingly erotic.
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She began assembling a gray, plastic castlelike house that looked shockingly like her own.
Strangers at the Feast
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As an oldies act, his nasal whine, shockingly similar to his father's distinctive voice, grates on the nerves in stereo.
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Your belief to the contrary is also shockingly false.
Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
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It's like he was slowly coming to the realization that the grand finale of the magnificent journey had come to this shockingly humbling ending.
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In a shockingly inaccurate critique of QuAM for focusing on "revelry" as opposed to "awareness", the Editorial Board not only passes judgment on an arbitrary conception of education, but participates in the stigmatization of LGBT sexuality.
Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.
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For his closest friends and family his demise was shockingly adventitious.
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Charles H. Baker Jr., in his indispensable treatise on dispensables, "The Gentleman's Companion," describes the effects of regular absinthe-bibbing: "It does nibble the keen edge off the brain until a man becomes a sorry sort of thing; aimless, listless, and generally -- shockingly -- lacking.
Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms
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Shockingly, the medical establishment is responding.
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All evidence points to ecological technology being cost effective, if not shockingly profitable.
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If you look at how the distr cts and the circuits rule on FA and then how the Court rules, especially as the delicate right-left balance on the Court shifts, you see that his statements such as “no sensible” or “shockingly broad” are euphemisms for, “no sensible person would or should disagree with me-EV” or “this shocks me-EV”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuit Alleging that AIG’s Use of Sharia-Compliant Financing Violates the Establishment Clause Survives a Motion To Dismiss:
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Then there are the white flesh and the glutin, the best of all fattening foods; and having eaten to repletion for a couple of days, the diet palls, and they begin to speak in shockingly disrespectful terms of turtle.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Wow, either lawnmower/toe accidents are shockingly common somebody call OSHA, or an amazingly large number of people know the guy with the foot cake.
The Groom's Revenge
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One day, she lost her temper, completely, suddenly and, even to herself, shockingly
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Shockingly she used her umbrella as a shield and said snowball simply trampolined off the umbrella and broke on the ground.
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Moreover, she looked ghastly, looked frail and thin and colourless, had aged shockingly in these months of widowhood.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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As theses go, this was shockingly boilerplate stuff - almost like he'd cribbed it off the internet, or a junior researcher.
Times, Sunday Times
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Travis had made her initiation into the mystery of sensuality at once incredibly tender and shockingly passionate.
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Thou didst cheat her shockingly, Frank, time o 'the famine, on those nine sacks of maslin meal.
The Saint's Tragedy
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Dumb though half the kids may be, they're just plodding meat fodder for a shockingly arrogant TV experiment, which exists for no apparent reason other than to demoralise any genuine teachers watching, potentially to the point of suicide, which really would cause a crisis in our educational system.
Charlie Brooker: Jamie's Dream School – a youth club with David Starkey instead of a pool table
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The leasers said they would discount the rent but shockingly enough it didn't happen.
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He came to see the Soviets as ‘sincere enthusiasts trying to regenerate a people who had been shockingly misgoverned.’
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First we had the privilege of enjoying Baise-Moi, a tale of female empowerment through an orgiastic killing spree, that failed to disturb simply because it was so shockingly bad.
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He is also a black man coming-of-age on the cusp of two shockingly different decades, the 1950s and the 1960s.
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All evidence points to ecological technology being cost effective, if not shockingly profitable.
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Except for one large canvas dependent on scrabbled zones of shockingly clear violet, most of the paintings are a little murky.
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When she was four she sat down at the family piano and plunked out a shockingly respectable rendition of ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.’
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Teapot, $58 Among the pretty, useful, durable things are Portland designer Adam Arnold's tight-fitting slipcovers shown in fuschia wool, $550 and a shockingly good-looking extension cord. schoolhouseelectric.com
New in Design
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A batch of his productions sound shockingly samely.
Undefined
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To suggest that critical gender studies is correcting an imbalance in favour of women is either shockingly ignorant or detestably insulting.
Women’s studies vs critical gender studies « Love | Peace | Ohana
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Travis had made her initiation into the mystery of sensuality at once incredibly tender and shockingly passionate.
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The chances of re-employment are shockingly slim.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could not seem to hurt him, his defence was shockingly porous, and during most exchanges Sturm was a split-second ahead.
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One of the things I adore about my dissertation advisor (who is famous both for his work and, if you get people drunk, for being shockingly tactless) is that his tactlessness means that he speaks the truth.
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Stories of abused and battered children are shockingly familiar.
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The feelings were slowly draining from her face, leaving it shockingly pale color.
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Shockingly, this useless and dangerous surgery did not end until the 1930s.
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Spiky jet black hair and shockingly bright blue eyes were only a few of his amazing traits.
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I told them about those three ships -- we imagine huge floating fortresses, but Columbus 'ships were shockingly tiny for an open ocean crossing, two small caravels and the flagship Santa María, a carrack -- making their way out of Palos that morning, on a voyage longer and more dangerous than a modern trip to the moon.
Jesse Larner: Some Thoughts on Columbus Day
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It was seen as a shockingly unglamorous approach at a time when fashion, still very much about class, was shown on impossibly aloof models in carefully posed, static shots.
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Looking down the street Mother saw Mrs. V.'s daughter Annie walking toward them in a shockingly revealing dress for the 1940s.
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There are some scratches and blemishes visible in the very early going, but for the most part this is a shockingly bright, clean, clear transfer with almost no digital gremlins to complain about.
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He made her feel shockingly vulnerable when she should have been consumed with annoyance herself.
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As well as, shockingly, undergoing over 100 cosmetic surgery procedures while she battled body dysmorphic disorder.
The Sun
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Teapot, $58 Among the pretty, useful, durable things are Portland designer Adam Arnold's tight-fitting slipcovers shown in fuschia wool, $550 and a shockingly good-looking extension cord. schoolhouseelectric.com
New in Design
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Weeelll, since I am 30 years old and go for guys that are manly and have chest hair, and sexy British accents, and have true musical talent (the dude can play guitar/piano and sing), and has a wonderful sense of humor, nice tail section, and looks at his chick so adoringly (yes, I mean Kristen), I would have to shockingly go with Robert Pattinson.
'Twilight' coverboys: Who's hotter, Taylor or Robert? | EW.com
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For what it's worth, for once he sounds shockingly insincere.
Times, Sunday Times
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The koalas communicate across the Australian forests by making low-frequency calls that are shockingly uncute (listen to the embedded video).
Wired Top Stories
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But, especially on a second viewing, it is a shockingly conventional narrative, a tried-and-true caper picture guised up in brainy sci-fi trappings.
Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: the Overrated.
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Manet's Olympia, one of the masterpieces of Realist painting, depicts unmistakably and shockingly a modern Parisienne… Olympia's challenging and unmaidenly stare no doubt had a great deal to do with the moral outrage which greeted the picture when it was first shown.
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When I first met Kevin, he was wearing his favourite blazer, a threadbare garment that fitted him ill, but you could spot him across the valley for it is a shockingly bright pink, accented with bilious green and yellow splotches.
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It's just shockingly uncool and hopelessly out of date.
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What often becomes shockingly obvious is that the garden is in a muddle.
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The land around the seafront house my family lived in is also shockingly different.
The Sun
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I speak my mind, just like that, nakedly right out there in the open, shockingly point-blank in front of everybody.
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The main thing I have realized, as the names accumulate, is the shockingly young age of some writers.
Four Days And Counting… « The Graveyard
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Instead, what we end up with is a parlor trick as plot device, a shockingly surreal way of keeping both husband and wife front and center in the storyline.
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A total of 52 unforced errors were shockingly costly for Kvitova.
Times, Sunday Times
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The songs are often second-rate and the performances are dire, like his shockingly inept vocal on the title track.
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teachers were shockingly underpaid
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Unlike other award-winning newsmagazines in this country, The Advocate delivers the goods every other week with a shockingly small staff of editors!
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Her wavy hair was a dark brown that contrasted with her pale skin and brought out her shockingly blue eyes.
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He thought as he was staring at the shockingly blank white walls.
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Their tax cuts for the wealthy widened a gulf between rich and poor in this country that had already grown shockingly large.
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Ellis is unrestrainedly keen, because he isn't as ‘shockingly nervous’ as he says he was during last year's TV debut.
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It makes him shockingly disagreeable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coco Chanel was inspired by this now legendary classic in the seaside town of Deauville, France, in 1913, when she shockingly encouraged women to ditch the restraining corseting of the day to be comfortable.
The Style Checklist
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Pure sex is paradisal, but we lost it; postlapsarian lovemaking is represented as shockingly inferior.
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday
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Grammatical improprieties in tweets set a shockingly poor example and will not be accepted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shockingly, Victoria wasn't convinced, whilst the bucktoothed Brazilian couldn't be persuaded to kiss goodbye to the beaches of Rio, and Kean had to turn to the far less imagination-inspiring likes of Simon Vukcevic and Jordan Slew me neither.
Matthew Handley: Are Blackburn Rovers' Owners Headless Chickens?
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Shockingly, Sarah's parents excused their daughter from the table without either of them informing her of the existence of children in China that don't have matzoh brei at all.
Mark C. Miller: Least-Known Jewish Miracles
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Shockingly, he has even seemed to enjoy the museums, like the one in Dar Es Salaam where we got a private showing of the Australopithecus skull found by Louis and Mary Leakey in Olduvai Gorge.
The 'Trip': So Far, So Good for Both of Us
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The loss, he explains unwinkingly, was outrageous: ‘It was merely because we were so shockingly superior that we were inevitably shockingly overconfident.’
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Last week, she appeared in the papers looking shockingly gaunt, and it was reported she has been hitting the bottle again.
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Take the site of the Sogo Department Store, a high-end emporium that once sold everything from elegant kimonos to shockingly expensive packets of dried seaweed.
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In North America and some countries in Europe, exposing the bosom is shockingly natural compared to Korea.
Global Voices in English » Korea: Things that might surprise you in North America
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Shockingly that Conservative bastion of hatred, religion and guns are you Liberals like to call Colorado Springs has a higher percentage of minorities and black owned businesses than the state average.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Tall, leafless trees outlined the pathway, their silhouettes shockingly dark against the snow.
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All evidence points to ecological technology being cost effective, if not shockingly profitable.
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shockingly inconsiderate behavior
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For what it's worth, for once he sounds shockingly insincere.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are desultory protests in the ‘pen’, but that's a shockingly depressing situation.
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Further on, other members of the court seek to use Shakespeare's name to pen shockingly awful plays, including Queen Elizabeth herself, with material that entwines her craving for affection with sadomasochistic urges.
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Dark shadows, even darker than Charlie's, sat beneath his coal gray eyes and the red veins in his eyes had become shockingly apparent.
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He systematically builds up the suspense until ultimately the ending comes upon you surprisingly, almost shockingly, leaving you cold and unbelieving.
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Indeed, hiring people is so cheap in comparison to other costs, that workplaces tend to be quite shockingly overmanned.
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Then — suddenly, shockingly — it transforms into “The Shining” meets Evil Dead with green politics, torture porn and a fair amount of Lynchian abstractions … Gripped by the calculation of the design, I think I loved it, but might have been blindsighted by the sheer audacity of its twisted conception.
Is ANTICHRIST Art? | Obsessed With Film
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Suddenly, shockingly, the clergyman's son was a desperado.
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Possessed individuals often took advantage of their situation to blaspheme or behave in shockingly immoral fashion.
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There were shouts and barks, and shockingly loud noises like branches being snapped right inside his ears.
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Some answers were obtained, most shockingly that the according to extensive testing at one of the country 's top DNA laboratory, the lampshade is "real", or in the words of the lab report "of human origin.
Mark Jacobson: Looking At An Icon Of Evil
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There are many, many cars, and lots of people tailgating, with circles of lawn chairs and barbecues and shockingly large piles of empty beer cans.
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British companies are shockingly relaxed about cybercrime and fraud.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bonded labour may sound like pages from the remote past but is shockingly a fact in the present day, just an hour's drive from the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
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It was shockingly bright, but only a birder would have noticed it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I liked the overly elongated hero and his shockingly clefted chin.
Archive 2006-05-01
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The rogue manager, shockingly, defended his actions, suggesting that the servers were "prima donnas" who needed to be humbled, which is to say humiliated, to make them more pliant employees.
Forbes.com: News
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If Henry Adams were whooshed from his Washington of a century ago to our Washington of today, he would find it shockingly changed, except for the institutions of government.
How America Can Rise Again
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Mr. Rerechild, the Barchester doctor whom she employed; and then the young mother mentioned some shockingly modern succedaneum which
Barchester Towers
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Two fish showed during the day, a shockingly black beggar of not less than 30 lb. which jumped out of the water, and another kelt which plunged out of range.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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And yes, Bourneville is shockingly quiet and reserved but one thing I do like about suburbia is the relative quiet.
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The penultimate over before lunch, Harbhajan, shockingly resplendent in white patka, found his bounce.
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It makes him shockingly disagreeable.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is shockingly sweet at first - a fizzy drink gone flat in the sun.
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Shockingly, they still perceive women as inferior.
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In "Guadalupe Sex Goddess," Cisneros shockingly and explicitly compared her panocha to the Virgen's.
Wendy Carrillo: El Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe: A Reflection
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Critics have poked holes in her arguments, alleging that her renowned depth of knowledge is shockingly shallow.
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A shockingly ugly old person, almost as black as coal.
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Shockingly, Ripley's return to LV-426 comes with a plethora of highly trained marines by her side — yet it's this meagerly trained warehouse worker that manages to outlive the rest and take out Aliens like the best.
Zoe Saldana’s ‘Avatar’ Role Is Simply The Latest Of James Cameron’s Powerful Leading Ladies » MTV Movies Blog
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Oh, and if you end up in the great UFC cage in the sky; I happen to know that Deepak Chopra is shockingly susceptible to the ‘rear naked choke!’
I have no point, but I may or may not be funny sometimes regardless of what that guy with the lazy eye says, and also, where’s my taco? | Johnny B. Truant
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The results were shockingly poor - looking back the decision to shoot everything on bluescreen & model all the locations in Blender within the 48 hours was a bit ambitious and should have rung a few alarm bells, and although the live shoot went smoothly post-production was completely rushed.
Half A Million intro [remake]
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Critics have poked holes in her arguments, alleging that her renowned depth of knowledge is shockingly shallow.
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At the French court, the Princess Catherine is learning English from her gentlewoman Alice, finding the English words ‘foot’ and ‘gown’ shockingly immodest.
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Vernon Silver shines a spotlight over the shockingly cut-throat often illegal by even renowned museums competition for priceless ancient art by focusing on a kylix by famous ancient Greek artisan Euphronios.
The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece-Vernon Silver « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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Mostly it was overlong and shockingly chintzy — homophobic, too.
2009 November : Scrubbles.net
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Most shockingly, Americans still support the death penalty in large numbers despite an awareness that innocent people are executed.
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With all respect to you, sir, the choice for Governor in this instance seems clearly to lie between Mr. Sinclair on the one hand -- a man who is shockingly unstable in his opinions, and obviously unreliable in his ever-varying and conflicting advocacies -- and Mr. Merriam on the other hand -- a capable and conscientious American, wholly dependable in his proven devotion to the public welfare. ...
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hearst Rips Upton Sinclair, As Heywood Broun Warns of 'Fascism'
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Shockingly, even a teacher is listed as a perpetrator in a Yorkshire council's tables, which show a total of 173 racist incidents from name-calling to assault.
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It reveals a shockingly casual attitude about the millions of women and girls who have died because of men's sexist and duplicitous behavior.
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The land around the seafront house my family lived in is also shockingly different.
The Sun
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The chances of re-employment are shockingly slim.
Times, Sunday Times
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I promised Caroline I’d put it up so here it is … I was kind of fancying mocking a cover up in colour, because that’s the sort of thing I waste my time on, but I’m shockingly paralyzed by the death of my Toshiba tablet.
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As she more than once said, our letters over the years seemed to reveal a shockingly high mortality among our friends.
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they behaved shockingly at the funeral
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It was a case of shockingly bad sportsmanship - and bad acting to boot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sadly, the ugly arm of slavery reaches far beyond Sudan and shockingly touches every continent except Antarctica.
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Barilla has this fantastic (and shockingly cheap) spinach/ricotta tortellini, which is functioning as my lunch right now.
February 20th, 2005
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But shockingly, during the Cold War, Russian scientists actually carried out experiments where they inseminated unsuspecting human females with hybrid embryos created in a lab.
David Mizejewski: Are "Humanzees" Possible?
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The restaurant charges shockingly high prices for its food.