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out of thin air

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. out of thin air, out of nothing, from nowhereadverb

    without warning

    "your cousin arrived out of thin air"

Wiktionary

  1. out of thin airadverb

    from non-existent, unknown or hidden resources

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  1. out of thin air

    "Out of thin air" is an idiomatic phrase that means appearing suddenly or unexpectedly from an unknown source or place, often as if by magic. It usually refers to something appearing when it seemed impossible that it could be there. It can also refer to making up or inventing something, like an idea or story, without any prior planning or basis in facts.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of out of thin air in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of out of thin air in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of out of thin air in a Sentence

  1. Dick Simpson:

    While the public is very sympathetic to the issues of more nurses and so on, there's a pretty good understanding that it just doesn't come out of thin air and will have to take years of effort to make the schools better.

  2. Elizabeth Clare:

    The non-invasive nature of this approach makes it particularly valuable for observing vulnerable or endangered species as well as those in hard-to-reach environments, such as caves and burrows. They do not have to be visible for us to know they are in the area if we can pick up traces of their DNA, literally out of thin air, air sampling could revolutionise terrestrial biomonitoring and provide new opportunities to track the composition of animal communities as well as detect invasion of non-native species.

  3. Elie Honig:

    That's just conjured out of thin air.

  4. Darren Bush:

    The FTC thinks that you can't create a viable competitor out of thin air.

  5. Neil Sroka:

    We have to go where grassroots energy is. We can't just manufacture it out of thin air.

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