abrupt
Example Sentences
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April 2025 was an example of when systematic strategies were whipsawed by an abrupt change of direction for risk assets.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Minutes before the news conference was brought to an abrupt halt, Hallgrimsson insisted he would not be drawn on either matter and would not "get involved in that as others will process that".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
This is a game when the Scotland goal drought needs to end and the run of games without a win needs to be brought to be an abrupt conclusion.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The dearth of new models is a direct hangover from the industry’s massive shift to electric vehicles and its abrupt pullback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Embedded in the history of the gene is “the quest for eternal youth, the Faustian myth of abrupt reversal of fortune, and our own century’s flirtation with the perfectibility of man.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing abrupt
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