abruptly

During tensions with senior executives 20 years ago, Lachlan Murdoch abruptly quit his senior role at News Corp. and moved back to his father’s native Australia.

It would be like the pope abruptly announcing that the doctrine of transubstantiation is nonsense; it’s just a cracker and a cup of watered-down wine.

Moreover, she was upset on behalf of staff members who abruptly lost their jobs.

But one day last month that abruptly changed when a call to a colleague did not go through properly.

Telling no one, she abruptly dropped out of Yale and moved with him to Arizona.