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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. Joe Biden:

    By the way, that doesn't mean it'll stay that way, you can go back and look : When Barack( Obama) clobbered me in the campaign, you know, I had more black support in South Carolina than anybody, including him. I got blown out in Iowa and all of a sudden everything changed. Same thing could happen.

  2. Bo Dietl:

    Michael Cohen was very taken aback that no one was communicating with Michael Cohen, you're so close to somebody and all of a sudden they stop talking to you, you wonder what's happened.

  3. Hank Burns:

    I worked right next to those pits, i noticed it while I was still there. I would be walking and you get short of breath all of a sudden. I would suddenly get dizzy.

  4. Allison Ball:

    It's a considerable amount of money, and it's something that's actually concerned me the whole time with this account because it's unusual. It's not set up in the traditional way of doing government, even the things that are usually available to me as treasurer are not available in this instance. We have to just rely on the information from the Public Protection Cabinet, which is why we're all of a sudden seeing these checks that are sent to the erroneous people. So, it's a problem.

  5. Donald Trump:

    All of a sudden they are trying to take you out with bullshit.


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