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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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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. George Soros:

    Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

  2. Adam Mount:

    Though the President Obama administration sporadically tried to restart negotiations, there was never discussion of a presidential summit. The Obama administration would have been very much out of keeping with policy. Past administrations would not have considered a presidential summit before a major accomplishment had been made, and more likely at the end of a disarmament process, the president( Donald Trump) has invented this idea out of thin air for reasons passing understanding. If he's trying to argue that Kim Jong Un likes Kim Jong more, I for one can't understand why he would take pride in that.

  3. Darren Bush:

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

  4. Ed Markey:

    First they created a precedent out of thin air claiming that there could be no Supreme Court confirmations during a presidential year, then just days before the 2020 presidential election, they broke their own rule … in order to confirm Amy Coney Barrett.

  5. 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.

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