abruptness
Example Sentences
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“The abruptness — and basically the lack of due process in general — just compounds the damage,” said Tao.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 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
Because of the abruptness of this breakup, you might have been left blaming yourself.
From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023
It wasn’t that she merely went along with it, but she was surprised at the sweeping abruptness with which her pronouns were adopted.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022
I didn’t want Rufus having to face some creditor that I had angered with my twentieth-century brevity—which could come across as nineteenth-century abruptness, even discourtesy.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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