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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abrupt leap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden or unexpected change or transition in a situation, idea, or narrative.
Example: "The story took an abrupt leap from the protagonist's childhood to her adult life, leaving readers puzzled about the missing years."
Alternatives: "sudden jump" or "sharp transition".
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Shakespeare's play of regeneration is a fable that is split between two countries, with an abrupt leap in time.
But a more troubled mid-period allowed Wilco to be dubbed "the American Radiohead", thanks to an abrupt leap into leftfield.
Then, in an abrupt leap forward, Lily is suddenly seen traipsing up a mountainside to visit her sister Elna (Jane Adams), who, with a partner, Harriet Tolliver (E. Katherine Kerr), has established a rustic school in the North Carolina woods.
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It often looked as if the gap between theory and policy was not so much bridged as crossed in abrupt leaps of faith.
More recently, by 2-photon microscopy and single-particle tracking, Levi et al. revealed that chromatin-constrained diffusion was interrupted by ATP-dependent abrupt leaps of about 150 nm that last for around one second, demonstrating additional, active modes of motion [ 17].
Still, abrupt statements leap out at you as these thinkers ponder what life will be as we increasingly take technology literally inside ourselves.
To read through the seismographic record of the gay movement, with its sudden waves of repression and its equally abrupt forward leaps, is to confront the unpredictable dynamics of bigotry.
So was the languorous editing of "2001," which, when paired with abrupt temporal leaps, made eons seem short and moments seem endless, and its brilliant deployment of music to organize, and often ironize, action and character.
Data from the collars showed that nimble leaps, abrupt stops and lateral pounces were what helped those cheetahs the most as they hunted.
Williams's handheld camera work is attuned to their slightest gestures, and Greene's abrupt association of images suggests leaps of memory and imagination.
But his leaps never felt abrupt: fidgeting strings, chattering percussion, a flatulent trombone and a cinematic gallop in triple time coexisted peaceably in his playfully surreal conception.
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