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Example sentences for: jolted

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5. "Merrill Lynch's powerful media analyst Jessica Reif Cohen jolted Time Warner's stock price Tuesday when she cut her earnings estimates for the company, citing a disappointing performance by Time Warner's music division.
(Although it is tactless to say this, the model everyone privately has in mind is the way wartime spending jolted the United States out of the Great Depression.