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a sudden onrush of development in an area that was rural until very recently
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Pure knowledge work is more likely to be disrupted by the onrush of AI technology than will be jobs that require manipulating objects in the real world.
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Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Ching may be somewhat narratively sidelined, but Mui’s final screen performance is a thing of aching delicacy and the movie’s stealth emotional weapon, marked by a restraint that gives way, in the end, to a cathartic onrush of tears.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
Few things are more thrilling than the sudden onrush of protagonism that clings to a player who’s hit a few shots in a row and is about to make the story of the game about himself.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
If the Allies risked it anyway, but the skies did not clear enough for airborne troops to make their jumps or for Allied warplanes to protect the beachheads, an onrush of German tanks could crush the toeholds on French sand.
—The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
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Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Ching may be somewhat narratively sidelined, but Mui’s final screen performance is a thing of aching delicacy and the movie’s stealth emotional weapon, marked by a restraint that gives way, in the end, to a cathartic onrush of tears.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
Few things are more thrilling than the sudden onrush of protagonism that clings to a player who’s hit a few shots in a row and is about to make the story of the game about himself.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
If the Allies risked it anyway, but the skies did not clear enough for airborne troops to make their jumps or for Allied warplanes to protect the beachheads, an onrush of German tanks could crush the toeholds on French sand.
—The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
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“Onrush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onrush. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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