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out of thin air

  1. see into thin air.



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“But it’s so cool because you go in there with nothing and you make something out of thin air,” she says.

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“And he was trafficking girls. There’s an actual crime at the heart of this. It’s not just something that people have made up out of thin air.”

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There he was, alone on the stage, belting out falsetto notes in his spangly jumpsuit, when suddenly, an electric guitar appeared out of thin air and landed in his hands.

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The reaction was insanely excessive and motivated by some longstanding policy goals that had little to do with the attack but the casus belli wasn't conjured up out of thin air.

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China's success in technology has not come out of thin air, even given the unlikely origins of the DeepSeek deep shock.

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