abruptly
骤然间,突然间,骤然,忽然间
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- : without warning; suddenly or unexpectedly: Not noticing that the car in front of him had stopped abruptly, he rear-ended it.
- : in few words and without using any polite formulas; brusquely: My 14-year-old son was calling; as soon as I picked up, he asked abruptly, “How long till you get home?”
- : steeply; sharply: At one end, the meadow flowed into a large valley; at the other, it dropped off abruptly in a cliff.
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The revelation immediately revived the show’s fandom, as many previous fans of the show who’d stopped paying attention in recent years abruptly tuned in again to see how their beloved ship was doing.
In Arizona on Saturday, the plaintiffs in a lawsuit about alleged ballot issues stemming from the use of Sharpie markers abruptly moved to dismiss their suit without prejudice.
Ant, whose IPO was poised to be the new record-setter until regulators abruptly halted it on Tuesday, would have seen its shares open at a price 31-times the company’s net profit forecast for 2021, as Reuters observed.
It’s mothers who are bearing the brunt of abruptly losing child care and school.
Winds abruptly shift to out of the north in the evening and are gusty through the night.
NBC News boss Deborah Turness abruptly ousted the ‘Meet the Press’ host four months ago.
Because this food source could abruptly disappear at any time, cutworm moths cannot be counted on to replace pine nuts.
But then the president abruptly reversed himself—without consulting his national security Cabinet members.
He then abruptly departed for reasons that the school declines to clarify.
Attending a Mile High event is akin to being abruptly thrown into an ongoing play and having to adjust your behavior accordingly.
The noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and ceased.