abrupt
Example Sentences
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Her fiance lives in Canada and was due to fly to Tehran for the ceremony before the war brought air travel to an abrupt halt.
From BBC
The stock-market crash led investors to speculate whether poorly designed automatic trading or other market-structure minutiae were to blame for the abrupt selloff.
Once the cold front, with its heavy rain has moved through, there will be a very abrupt drop off in the strength of the wind.
From BBC
Momentum stocks also performed well, though lagged in the wake of oil’s abrupt spike before regaining strength as new equity leadership emerged, they said.
From MarketWatch
The abrupt nature of the crisis forced a rapid reshuffling of shipping logistics.
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