electroshock
noun
elec·tro·shock
i-ˈlek-trō-ˌshäk 
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The chaotic sounds of feet tapping, knives clinking, and electroshocks buzzing create anxiety throughout the film, but when Para One’s music plays, the film communicates that de Saint Phalle has reached a breakthrough.
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Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
The rocket also has the ability to zap drones with the company's PYTHON electroshock device.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2024
Troubled by the changes in their niece, Aunt Em (Piper Laurie) and Uncle Henry (Matt Clark) bring her to a psychiatric hospital where, on the verge of being subjected to a primitive form of electroshock treatment, she’s whisked away to Oz again.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
By the late 1920s, police everywhere in the country used third-degree tactics such as brutal beatings, electroshock, and waterboarding to secure confessions.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Nov. 2024
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Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
The rocket also has the ability to zap drones with the company's PYTHON electroshock device.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2024
Troubled by the changes in their niece, Aunt Em (Piper Laurie) and Uncle Henry (Matt Clark) bring her to a psychiatric hospital where, on the verge of being subjected to a primitive form of electroshock treatment, she’s whisked away to Oz again.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
By the late 1920s, police everywhere in the country used third-degree tactics such as brutal beatings, electroshock, and waterboarding to secure confessions.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Nov. 2024
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electroshock
noun
elec·tro·shock
-trō-ˌshäk
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