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Because they stopped and I thought, “OK, that makes sense,” and then all of a sudden I saw another issue!

Investigators will focus on whether the sudden emergency was so extreme that no degree of pilot skill would have helped.

Airline pilots are now slowly, too slowly, being given access to flight simulators able to reproduce sudden and unexpected upsets.

People will always scratch and save if a sudden burst of unrestrained pleasure can be purchased.

Liu had been married just two months before and his wife now stood in this Brooklyn hospital, a sudden widow because of a madman.

The noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and abruptly ceased.

The sudden pall of darkness in this strange house of mystery was just a tiny bit awesome.

While you were admiring the long roll of the wave, a sudden spray would be dashed over you, and make you catch your breath!

They were a well-matched pair; iron-nerved, both of them, the sort of men to face sudden death open-eyed and unafraid.

Aristide, aglow with a sudden impudent inspiration, leant across the marble table.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sudden, such as: abrupt, hasty, immediate, precipitous, quick, and rapid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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