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“Dan especially. I tried to copy him in high school and college and just hurt my arm. He was abrupt, violent and perfect.”

"The loss of Antarctic sea ice is another abrupt change that has a whole range of knock-on effects, including making the floating ice shelves around Antarctica more susceptible to wave-driven collapse," she said.

When that resistance is finally overcome, it can cause an abrupt acceleration along the fault.

Later that day, the trees came to an abrupt end.

The asteroid impact brought the age of dinosaurs to an abrupt end, but the ecosystems they left behind became the foundation for a new evolutionary chapter.