abrupt

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abruptly
If the ending is ultimately and abruptly happy, the pathos lingers.
As the reorganization perspective argues, elites led the way in abruptly changing the types (not just numbers) of civic groups with which they affiliated.
A young woman's laugh fills the darkness of the space, joined by a second woman's laughter until both abruptly stop.
Either way, in rendering an idealized construct, the press offered a 'vision' against which non-conformity jarred abruptly.
The proportion of relational words decreases abruptly at first, then more slowly.
It is seen that an addition of minute quantities of positrons abruptly reduces the net negative charge of the dust grain.
For one, elaborately modeled image censers and censer stands abruptly ceased to be used, and spiked hourglass and ladle censers were adopted.
These dramatic, conjunct descents, like the angular motion described above, also serve to change the register, although less abruptly than the leaps.
Abruptly replacing them with democratic village government from the top in the middle of a war might have produced a facade rather than substantive decision-makers.
Weaning countries abruptly from external financing and technical assistance might well have the opposite effect.
This substance frequently ends abruptly on the nuclear side, being sharply demarcated, by a straight line, from the rest of the parasite.
She abruptly sacrifices the passive, feminine world of the vanity table for military action.
The model did not take into account whether a person retired abruptly or gradually.
Calcium rises abruptly and briefly throughout the cell at the onset of anaphase.
They should not be stopped abruptly because of the risk of worsening confusion and disorientation caused by an anticholinergic withdrawal syndrome.
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