How to Use shock therapy in a Sentence

shock therapy

noun
Definition of shock therapynext
  • But the response was to have to give her electric shock therapy.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The Perfection Years of shaving her head for shock therapy can do quite a number on a gal’s hair.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 24 June 2019
  • Unlike shock therapy, which jolts the whole brain, TMS penetrates only an inch or so.
    — Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2012
  • It’s like the girl who was electrocuted, who got electric shock therapy.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Concern grew over reports of poor treatment, abuse, lobotomies and electric shock therapy.
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2022
  • North America’s largest bird is on the verge of extinction, and scientists are using shock therapy to give them a fighting chance.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2015
  • Along with his sullen young assistant, Fiennes visits the asylums of the West Coast performing lobotomies and electric shock therapy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • He was hospitalized for six months and subjected to shock therapy.
    — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Psychiatric treatments of the past, such as lobotomies or shock therapy, failed to adequately protect patients.
    — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Try electric shock therapy, drugs that render men impotent, or maybe even a lobotomy.
    — Jane M. Von Bergen, Philly.com, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Kwarteng’s mini-budget appears to be creating a kind of supply-side economics shock therapy for Britain.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Hard to believe now, but Russia’s leadership wanted to use shock therapy after the collapse of the Soviet Union to create a market economy and align closely with the West.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 4 Dec. 2018
  • This gradualist recipe, intended to avoid the upheaval of past economic shock therapies, relied heavily on fresh credit to plug the deficit.
    — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 29 May 2018
  • So the shock therapy of that earlier era might be unnecessarily painful.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 12 July 2022
  • The Yeltsin years would bring new freedoms but also economic shock therapy, chaos, corruption and hardship for many ordinary Russians.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Solzhenitsyn abhorred the shock therapy and unchecked capitalism of the 1990s and preferred Putin’s tough nationalism.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • He’s made a scary movie that balances psychological shock therapy with old-fashioned fright, shadowy dread with blunt splatterfest FX, an artsy-fartsy sense of stylistics slapped on to a twisty B-movie scenario.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
  • And the intimacy here between this audience and this comedian differs from the national shock therapy from a few weeks before.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Researchers at Brigham Young University, which is owned by the church, allegedly used electric shock therapy to attempt to cure homosexuality in the 1970s.
    — Tara Law, Time, 1 Dec. 2019
  • But not long after, the rumors began: Eagleton had been hospitalized for depression the decade before and undergone shock therapy.
    — Peggy Drexler, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In this strategically vital nation of 100 million, a charismatic young leader is delivering shock therapy to one of the world’s most entrenched one-party systems.
    — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 17 July 2018
  • The practice has taken many forms historically, including shock therapy and hypnosis, but the most common form today is talk therapy, according to the study.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • Paul Volcker’s shock therapy brought down inflation and made fiscal borrowing more acceptable to bond markets; meanwhile, the structural decline in growth rates enhanced the willingness of politicians to lean against sluggish growth.
    — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Some Republicans who are vociferously pro-Trump sound, in conversations about the Party’s future, more like Restorationists who regard him as a temporary jolt of shock therapy.
    — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Some of the most extreme measures have included electric shock therapy, hormone regimens, physical abuse and internment.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Since rising to power last year after months of political violence, Mr. Ahmed, a former intelligence officer has sought to deliver shock therapy to one of the world’s most entrenched one-party systems.
    — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 23 June 2019
  • Because the problems are so large, shock therapy that increases numbers immediately might create a critical mass.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 25 May 2021
  • Because Jack and friends know that addressing institutional barriers requires much more than shock therapy.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 25 May 2021
  • Sunak’s decision not to extend a blanket furlough plan leaves unemployment headed for levels not seen since Thatcher implemented her shock therapy.
    — David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Get our daily newsletter Mr Macri has attracted attention for his effort to stabilise and open Argentina’s economy while avoiding shock therapy.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018

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