all of a sudden
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“People were playing memory, and then all of a sudden they were playing semicap, and then they were playing optical, and then power settings, and then CPUs,” he said.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
“You’ll be reading someone’s Substack or blog post, and all of a sudden in the middle of a perfect paragraph, there’ll be a mistake sitting out there like a sore thumb,” said O’Bryan, 62.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
“Just moving homelessness doesn’t all of a sudden solve it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
There's more appeal and all of a sudden a new champion can arise so it's going to be really exciting and competitive.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
As we were going with our candle along the dark passage, Estella stopped all of a sudden, and, facing round, said in her taunting manner, with her face quite close to mine,—
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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