abruptness
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Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education — which represents 1,600 universities and colleges — said many of his members were taken aback by the abruptness of the action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025
Brammer in an advice column for The CUT on how to handle being romantically ghosted — an experience in which the abruptness and lack of closure can necessitate a very real grieving process.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2023
Performed in the pared-down orchestration Stravinsky made in 1947, decades after writing the piece, “Petrushka” here seemed both to echo and to have generated the Lara concerto’s off-kilter abruptness, fearless colors and wry enigmas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Because of the abruptness of this breakup, you might have been left blaming yourself.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
Before them, the shadow reached out and ended in knife-edge abruptness into an all-but-unbearable blaze of white light, that glittered from myriad crystals along a rocky ground.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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