• She opened windows to let out the dust and, turning back suddenly, saw that something had been left behind.

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  • "The direct cause to the crash of the Chinese plane is the U.S. plane violated flying regulations by suddenly turning toward the Chinese planes and bumping into one of the planes, " Zhu said.

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  • To be fair, none of the central banks realized that even the saving grace of spreading the risk of new products and innovations (like credit default swaps) would not of themselves prevent those who had been too optimistic from suddenly turning pessimistic.

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  • "I've been a bad father to you, Peggy, " he had said suddenly, turning his head on the pillow to look at me.

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  • In 1955 he suddenly embraced representation, turning out dozens of figurative paintings that translate the language of Matisse into a wholly personal, semiabstract style.

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  • This man, who went with Alexander as a kind of court historian, was a great supporter and cheerleader for six years until turning into a critic, rather suddenly, over the issue of whether Alexander ought to be greeted with a low bow, the way Persian monarchs were greeted.

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  • After a few hours, a small roe deer trots into the clearing ahead before abruptly turning and running, as if having suddenly recalled an appointment elsewhere in the forest.

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  • The waterway widens suddenly -- it is a turning basin, carved in the 1850s to accommodate the lumber barges stacked with wood that was shipped across Lake Michigan from the forests of Wisconsin and Michigan.

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  • Mr. Lin had been sleeping on the couch in his brother's living room, uncertain about whether he would be cut from the team, when he suddenly emerged from obscurity and began turning around a losing season.

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  • For me, suddenly it became plain: There was no turning back.

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  • Professor SAPOLSKY: I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing of the familiar suddenly becomes real comforting.

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  • The inability to transmit does not greatly detract from its usefulness: if the probe's log showed, for instance, that the envelope it was inside crawled along Interstate 405 before turning off to Los Angeles International Airport where, after a short delay, it suddenly zoomed off to Phoenix Sky Harbour, then it probably went by air.

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