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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abruptly cold" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden and unexpected drop in temperature or a sudden change in someone's demeanor to being unfriendly or distant.
Example: "As the sun set, the air turned abruptly cold, catching everyone off guard."
Alternatives: "suddenly cold" or "unexpectedly cold".
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Health emerged as a frequently endorsed motive for cessation and stopping abruptly (cold turkey) was the most commonly reported strategy for quitting.
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For Ni=26, every cold trial abruptly hops from the once-cold steady state over a 100 s period leading to a unique steady state at Th.
This made the guidance system designers' task much more complex". "The beginning of the Cold War abruptly changed the fortunes of this Plant: it switched to the production of rockets.
Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's closest confederate in negotiating an end to the cold war, abruptly resigned today with an impassioned warning that "reactionaries" threatened his country with dictatorship.
It was one of those April days in Wisconsin when the weather shifts abruptly from hot to cold, and Allen, dressed in a sleeveless hoodie — his daily uniform down to 20 degrees, below which he adds another sweatshirt — was exactly where he wanted to be.
He studied a phenomenon called the "squall line," in which a mass of cold air abruptly shoves itself under warmer air, often spawning fierce but short-lived thunderstorms.
In 2007 at just 33 years old, Bershan's dreams were abruptly eclipsed by the cold, hard reality of 1.2 cm tumors, endless visits to oncologists and having to face her own mortality at a young age.
I recovered from the miscarriage, the doctors said my son merely had a vasovagal syncope episode (the doctors theorized that he fainted when I'd switched the bath water abruptly from hot to cold) and was otherwise healthy.
I felt inadequate, cold; our relationship abruptly grounded.
I was almost convinced, but then his cogent analysis veered abruptly toward conjecture: "Traditional Russian cold beverages, like kvass and mors," he continued, "also do not require ice".
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