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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shocking story" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a narrative or account that is surprising or disturbing in nature.
Example: "The journalist uncovered a shocking story about corruption in the local government that left the community in disbelief."
Alternatives: "an astonishing tale" or "a startling account".
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It was a shocking story.
Austin said: "This is a shocking story.
Those letters and follow-up interviews told a shocking story.
"It's part of a shocking story of older women and the media.
There is a shocking story that has still not been properly told.
Its report tells a shocking story of endemic corruption and general lawlessness.
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In a shocking story-turn, he changes his mind, allowing Sully to return to his avatar form and warn the Na'vi of the coming carnage.
Arguably the first New Wave feature, Le Beau Serge takes a pared-down rather than radically experimental approach, plainly, sometimes roughly telling an often shocking story of a French provincial life suffused with despair.
This is a truly shocking story.
"This is a very shocking story; it is completely unacceptable" Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said in Brussels.
But she must, I think, have colluded with Mycroft in the suppression of a genuinely shocking story that began circulating around the studio in the summer of 1929.
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