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Examples of jolt
jolt
Starbucks customers will soon get a jolt before any caffeine touches their lips.
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Otherwise, though, everything could have used a jolt of urgency and electricity.
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This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction.
From the techcrunch.com
Another time, we could have used paddles to jolt some life into our order-taker.
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The consumer pullback helped jolt the economy into reverse in the third quarter.
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He said that kind of work can begin right away and would jolt the local economy.
From the sacbee.com
The migration from combat to cul de sac, even in the best situations, is a jolt.
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The pass rush should get a jolt with the return of defensive end Rashawn Parker.
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Yet plainly not painful enough to jolt Hawaii out of its love of the status quo.
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- A sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers"
- Move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- Disturb (someone's) composure; "The audience was jolted by the play"
- Jerk: an abrupt spasmodic movement
- (jolted) bumped or shaken jerkily; "the jolted passengers"
- (jolted) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken"
- (jolting) rough: causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride"
- Jolt (Helen "Hallie" Takahama) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the Marvel Universe and a member of the Thunderbolts and Young Allies.
- The Jolt were a Scottish band formed in Glasgow in 1976.
