sudden change
Example Sentences
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In a release on Wednesday, the company said it wouldn’t “be able to utilize certain technologies and assets that were originally planned,” because of the sudden change in Honda’s plans.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
The author chronicles the troubled youth and “vagrant years” of Tennyson, up until 1850, when the still clean-shaven poet experienced a sudden change of fortune.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The outsize move in silver is “much more about positioning and volatility than some sudden change in the physical metal markets,” said Adam Koos, president and senior financial adviser at Libertas Wealth Management Group.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
But just two weeks after the donor stepped in, they were celebrating their sudden change of fortune.
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025
He was a master of the sudden change of register—a joke, or a phrase of unexpected intimacy.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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