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• The Santa Ana Foothill High goalie had come from nowhere.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
• The Santa Ana Foothill High lacrosse goalie had come from nowhere.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• Yet, the wealth necessary to make those loans seems to have emerged from nowhere.
  — Michael Balsamo, Fortune, 9 May 2023
• Aston Martin, at the start of this year, were fast from nowhere.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
• She was saved that day by a child about age 6, who appeared from nowhere.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
• Watching the Bengals do their imitation of the 2020 Browns, the team that came from nowhere to make the playoffs.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2022
• Of course, common wisdom about not looking back didn’t come from nowhere.
  — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2022
• But memories of her husband’s death came in waves, swelling up from nowhere, pulling her back under each time.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
• Back in 1970, this book seemed to arrive explosively from nowhere.
  — Riza Cruz, ELLE, 13 Sep. 2022
• That happened last year to Pfizer, which came from nowhere to capture the fourth spot on the all-star list, based on its pandemic performance.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
• These things were almost like analog memes, micro-bits of culture that seemed to come from nowhere and everywhere.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
• Modern science has revealed that while red tide seems to appear from nowhere, there are always algae cells of K. brevis in the deeper waters of the Gulf.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• Ideas could seem to come from nowhere today -- or perhaps somewhere even more fantastical than that.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• The painting came from nowhere and has now effectively disappeared again.
  — The Economist, 13 Apr. 2021
• There were the Carolyns, the girls from nowhere, both literally and figuratively, but there were also the debutantes.
  — Paulina Bren, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2021
• Fogg rescues a young man from the punishments of the British army with a speech about love that seems to arise from nowhere but is one of the more remarkable soliloquies on the subject one is likely to see short of Shakespeare.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• The dining room feels like a clown car: New faces seem to appear from nowhere, an eclectic rotation of wait-staff, sommeliers, hosts and chefs, each presenting dishes.
  — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2022
• Most of us have had the experience of struggling mightily to solve a problem only to find, while taking a walk or doing the dishes, that the answer comes to us seemingly from nowhere.
  — Emily Laber-Warren, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2022
• Despite running tirelessly all match, legs no doubt feeling like lead and lungs pumping acid, Adams emerged from nowhere to steal the ball from the five-time Champions League winner with a precise tackle.
  — Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• Their concerns about being out of sight, out of mind aren’t coming from nowhere in a workplace where proximity bias still exists; six in 10 managers told Beautiful.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2022
• One hallmark of true cult films is that their popularity seemingly arises from nowhere.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Mar. 2021
• The plot begins with the unthinkable: while waiting for Marion outside the police station, her teenage daughter and her best friend are attacked by a man who appears from nowhere but obviously knows them.
  — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022
• So many scenes were ingrained in my mind, from her fiery introduction to the tears that seemed to manifest from nowhere as one particular mid-season episode hit its climactic tragedy, plus many later moments that would be unfair to spoil.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2023
• Alexis Diaz, 25, seemingly arrived from nowhere, showing closer makeup, albeit in a small sample size.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 May 2022
• Trump is in the style of our moment: a man from nowhere, with no stake in the system, ignorant of history, incurious about our political habits and traditions, but happy to bash and to break old and precious things in exchange for a little attention.
  — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• Sternberg’s classical musicianship did not come from nowhere.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• While the odds of another Power Five program surging from nowhere to the top of the Bowl Subdivision remains extremely low, there are a few teams capable of climbing out of relative obscurity to contend for the playoff.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• While the odds of another Power Five program surging from nowhere to the top of the Bowl Subdivision remains extremely low, there are a few teams capable of climbing out of relative obscurity to contend for the playoff.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• The B-52s were able to fly higher than the naked eye could see, making its attacks both physically and psychologically devastating as its massive payloads would arrive seemingly from nowhere.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
• The thinking went: Could some girl from nowhere Louisiana who was famously part of Disney’s teen-star assembly line really be the creative visionary behind her instantly, enormously successful career?
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, The New Republic, 25 June 2021

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024