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all of a sud·den

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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. Darius Rucker:

    When it’s a great game, there’s just nothing like Super Bowl, you’re anticipating it all day, and you’re eating and you’re drinking with your friends and, all of a sudden, the game hits. You know, that’s my favorite part.

  2. Mehmet Oz:

    That is really dangerous, because now, all of a sudden, everyone’s got to kowtow to one opinion.

  3. Meat Loaf:

    We had had pizza and so I took four pizza boxes, put them out in the studio, turned on all the lights, I started running the pizza boxes like bases and I’d slide into one every once in a while. And all of a sudden, he got it, and he nailed it.

  4. Photographer Lucas Bracali:

    I was taking a photo of the lemur when all of a sudden he climbed down and tried to grab my camera, he hung upside down and reached out towards my camera. I couldnt believe it, I was really surprised!

  5. Mark Sargent:

    I don't think they're just linked, they kind of feed each other... it's a slippery slope when you think that the government has been hiding these things. All of a sudden, you become one of those people that's like,' can you trust anything on mainstream media ?'.


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