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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abrupt cold" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden and unexpected drop in temperature or a quick change to a cold environment.
Example: "As we stepped outside, we were hit by an abrupt cold that made us shiver instantly."
Alternatives: "sudden chill" or "sharp cold".
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Whenever the ocean circulation shut down in the simulations, temperatures in Greenland suddenly dropped by 12°C a decrease similar in magnitude to many abrupt cold snaps chronicled in the Greenland ice core records.
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After all of my usual excitement, a simple period might come across as abrupt, rude, cold.
In a television landscape of "late-night wars" and catty putdowns, the transition of talk show leadership has earned a reputation as abrupt and cold-blooded.
David Zulawski and Douglas Wicklander's "Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation" (1992) asserts that a liar's movements tend to be "jerky and abrupt" and his hands "cold and clammy".
Phases of predominant streaming activity coincide with periods of maximum ice extent and are triggered by abrupt transitions from a cold to relatively warm climate, resulting in major iceberg/melt discharge events into the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
The past two millennia are characterized by the abrupt onset of sustained cold periods at ca 550 and 1250 AD, separated by an interval of relative warmth from ca 950 to 1150 AD.
The peculiar region is the Northwest Atlantic near Newfoundland Rise, where abrupt environmental contrasts (the cold Labrador Current flowing from the north and the warm Gulf Stream from the southwest) result in different types of seasonal cycles over rather narrow area.
The first review in 1989 was rendered irrelevant with the abrupt end of the Cold War.
The abrupt end of the Cold War necessitated a new argument, and the rising lethality of transnational terrorism in the 1990s and 2000s provided one: Israel and the United States shared a common enemy and struggle in the "war on terror".
At the time, little to no warning was given to residents in the South-West Land Division; this was the result of Alby's abrupt acceleration along a cold front, a complex forecasting situation.
Sometimes people act disbelieving, cold, or abrupt when they are surprised.
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