Almost overnight, a legend was born: Wilde the homosexual martyr, Wilde the moral rebel.
The physical and time boundaries that used to divide our work and personal lives disappeared almost overnight.
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The campaign went viral, and sales at the once-obscure Utah blender-maker jumped 700% almost overnight.
Before then I became ill almost overnight and dropped to eight stone in a matter of three months.
"Almost overnight the trains became so jam-packed that it was just mission impossible during rush hours, " Tsao recalled.
Maybe because the sport he drew up almost overnight ultimately spawned a global industry from the U.S. to China.
They killed this well-known nameplate almost overnight and started calling their cars Nissans.
Eugene: If Greece leaves the Euro and issues Drachmas, that currency will be devalued by 60% almost overnight.
Almost overnight the east, once a scene of low-wattage gloom, became the in-place.
Sporting their long baggy shorts they changed the look of basketball almost overnight, a trend that has lasted two decades.
Bypassing traditional distribution means, including eRetailers such as Amazon, allows OR Books to have products up almost overnight for pre-sale.
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Best Buy, in effect, is giving Samsung pan-American own-retail presence almost overnight.
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In 2007, everything changed almost overnight and Kodak was completely caught unprepared.
Meanwhile, Facebook almost overnight became a social media sensation with most of its content made up of personal photos sent from smart phones.
Based on fair-value accounting rules, Goldman forced lower fire-sale marks on the industry which put some financial institutions out of business almost overnight.
In Baltimore, Minneapolis, Cincinnati and other cities the targeted neighborhoods saw drug markets disappear almost overnight or diminish dramatically, along with the attendant violence.
Bank of America bought Merrill Lynch in September 2008 which gave the North Carolina bank a prominent hold on the wealth management business almost overnight.
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Almost overnight, Jan turned her small store into a workshop and launched an exhaustive campaign to help victims, first responders, U.S. soldiers and Afghan children.
Another friend sold his company and became a multi-millionaire almost overnight.
Then almost overnight I was a guy who woke up and looked at a map with his friends saying where do you want to go today: Cambodia or Indonesia?
"Almost overnight, the potential sites sprung up like flowers on the screen: 'Here's five possibilities for a downhill, here's plenty for a slalom and so forth, '" Mr. Mathews said.
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Roddick took the tennis world by storm in 2000, when he suddenly morphed from a mediocre baselining junior to a power tennis monster with a 140-mph serve almost overnight.
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This is how with more than 90% of mortgages still paying on time, major companies like Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, AIG, and Lehman Brothers, found themselves suddenly bankrupt almost overnight.
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OPEC's power has been on the wane since the oil crises of the 1970s, when the cartel was able to triple prices almost overnight by restricting supply to western consumers.
Many historical sites that have escaped the wrecking ball, however, have suffered from gaudy restorations catering to China's boom in domestic tourism, which can turn remote relics into fairground attractions almost overnight.
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But then few have such concentrated suppliers as platinum, palladium and nickel - and Opec has been aware of its special power to influence the markets ever since 1973, when producers quadrupled world oil prices almost overnight.
The grain of truth here is that, yes, changes in technology and the economy have meant that, say, clever financiers or computer programmers can make billions of dollars almost overnight in a way that would have been inconceivable to the strenuously materials-based wealth accumulation of Andrew Carnegie or Commodore Vanderbilt.
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