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Princeton's WordNet

  1. all of a sudden, all at onceadverb

    without warning

    "all at once, he started shouting"

  2. suddenly, all of a sudden, of a suddenadverb

    happening unexpectedly

    "suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side"

Wiktionary

  1. all of a suddenadverb

    Suddenly, quickly.

ChatGPT

  1. all of a sudden

    "All of a sudden" is a phrase used to describe an event or situation that happens unexpectedly and quickly, without any warning or indication beforehand. It is often used to highlight surprising or shocking occurrences.

Wikidata

  1. All of a Sudden

    All of a Sudden was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's fifth album, released in 1982. It was his first of three albums with Geffen Records.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'all of a sudden' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3448

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of all of a sudden in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of all of a sudden in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of all of a sudden in a Sentence

  1. Sarah Gregorius:

    After 2019, there was this boom of popularity and interest in the sport. And then it got really chopped at the knees because all of a sudden there was no sport, no significant women’s football on TV to really maintain that momentum, obviously that has a very direct and real impact on the players but it also has an impact on an industry that’s still trying to emerge, still trying to grow, still trying to develop. And obviously you need to have the sport visible in order for that growth to happen and that momentum to stay in place.

  2. Chris Carr:

    We obviously had a nominee like Obama in that there was more of a movement behind him, all of a sudden, we had new volunteers showing up.

  3. David Flink:

    It was lightning in a bottle, all of a sudden, all this stuff that we thought was really taboo and doesn't sound good -- we discovered they were just words. Under all of that was potential.

  4. Lincoln Riley:

    And then all of a sudden he’s out of there and he’s vaccinated the next week.

  5. Michael Peroutka:

    The other thing that just is so striking to me, I can't get it out of my brain, and that is the vision of Building 7 falling faster than the speed of gravity, right ? Building 7, which no plane hit, and all of a sudden Building 7 falls, very consistent with what they call controlled demolitions or controlled charges because that building from the top down falls faster than if you had thrown a hammer off the top of the building.


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