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The phrase "a shocking rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a speed or frequency that is surprising or alarming.
Example: "The company is losing customers at a shocking rate, prompting management to reevaluate their marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "an alarming rate" or "a startling rate".
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Sweden's youth unemployment runs at a shocking rate of one in four.
More emphasis, he said, needs to be put on preserving the diverse forms of life on this planet, which are dying out at a shocking rate.
India's growing status as an economic superpower is masking a failure to stem a shocking rate of infant deaths among its poorest people.
At the other end of the globe, the Arctic ice cap has been melting at a shocking rate; the extent of the summer ice is now only a little more than half of what it was just forty years ago.
And we are piling on "emotional weight" at a shocking rate.
It's a shocking rate of error".
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For the past 20 years, he has specialised in encephalitis – another infection with a shocking mortality rate.
The main reason is a shocking dropout rate of 55%, the highest in the rich world.Judging that students were being asked to stay at university for too long, Mr Berlusconi's previous government introduced optional, three-year degree courses.
The new measure reveals that a smaller number of New Yorkers live in extreme poverty, but shows a higher proportion of working poor and a shocking poverty rate among the elderly: 32%, compared with the federal estimate of 18%.The mayors of Los Angeles, Miami and Cincinnati have praised New York's boldness.
There was a prizefight atmosphere, with tickets scalped at a then-shocking rate of $50 each, and an international gallery of spectators that included King Gustaf, a group of stowaway French schoolboys in a eucalyptus tree at one end of the court and Wills's future husband, Frederick Moody, who introduced himself to her after the match.
If this shocking rate of deaths continues, Florida tracks will have more than 100 greyhound deaths by the end of the year.
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