sudden
突然,忽然,突然的,突发
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Definitions
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- : happening, coming, made, or done quickly, without warning, or unexpectedly: a sudden attack.
- : occurring without transition from the previous form, state, etc.; abrupt: a sudden turn.
- : impetuous; rash.
- : Archaic. quickly made or provided.
- : Obsolete. unpremeditated.
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- : Literary. without warning; suddenly.
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- : Obsolete. an unexpected occasion or occurrence.
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Examples
All of a sudden, political videos have started to appear across all categories — humor, beauty, sport.
Thanks to Google's sudden disinterest in iOS app updates, the messages were showing even when users had the latest, two-month-old updates of these Google apps.
As rescue workers search for more than 100 people who are still missing, officials and scientists are trying to unravel the causes of the sudden flood.
The metaphor of “wildfire” became common in descriptions of the disease, especially “flare-ups” as countries that initially brought down their infection rates faced sudden surges of infection.
The curriculum they covered was truncated in response to the sudden closure of schools in March, when the public health emergency slammed the nation.
Because they stopped and I thought, “OK, that makes sense,” and then all of a sudden I saw another issue!
Investigators will focus on whether the sudden emergency was so extreme that no degree of pilot skill would have helped.
Airline pilots are now slowly, too slowly, being given access to flight simulators able to reproduce sudden and unexpected upsets.
People will always scratch and save if a sudden burst of unrestrained pleasure can be purchased.
Liu had been married just two months before and his wife now stood in this Brooklyn hospital, a sudden widow because of a madman.