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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. Laura Clancy:

    Of course, voluntary income tax [ is ] not a fixed rate, and they don't have to declare how much income they're making their tax on. So actually it's just like plucking a figure out of thin air.

  3. 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.

  4. Neil Sroka:

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

  5. 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.

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