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Add to that the psychic pain of watching your ball skitter like a rabbit toward the woods, headed nowhere in particular but away from your intention.
—Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2023
The war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions so far, with an end nowhere in sight.
—Renata Brito, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Dec. 2022
But the following day, when police found Baptiste in his Lincoln Navigator, dead of a gunshot wound, the triplets — a girl and two boys — were nowhere in sight.
—Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2022
Still, nowhere in Italy has captured my imagination—and feels as uniquely its own place—like Sicily.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
Hadid's dark brown hair was nowhere in sight, replaced with this golden blonde hue.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 19 Dec. 2022
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were all dressed up (in spacesuits) with nowhere to go Wednesday when they were told to stand by as the leak was investigated.
—Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 15 Dec. 2022
Christmas decorations, which in the general culture appear shortly after Thanksgiving, are nowhere in sight in a monastery until Christmas Eve.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
Beyond a lack of elbow room, with nowhere on the door to naturally rest an arm, the Thunderball felt both roomy and comfortable.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 7 Dec. 2022
Noun
The most enduring symbol of that series: Manu Ginobili at age 36, weaving his way through traffic in Game 5, giving a stiff-arm to 2013 tormentor Ray Allen before exploding for an out-of-nowhere dunk on Chris Bosh.
—Jeff Mcdonald, ExpressNews.com, 18 May 2020
While the series has officially concluded, this comeback special fast forwards to an entirely new, out-of-nowhere plot point and is therefore easy to watch for novices.
—Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 13 May 2020
The closure of residential programs is particularly hard on recovering addicts faced with the elements and nowhere else to go, Burns points out.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2020
Most of us have plenty of time on our hands and nowhere to go.
—Michelle Krupa, CNN, 29 Mar. 2020
An early, out-of-nowhere jump scare keeps you on edge the entire time, even though the rest of the movie's pretty quiet as Rachel (Naomi Watts) attempts to save her son from the extremely pissed off ghost Samara.
—Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 19 Mar. 2020
The new coronavirus has brought sports across the globe to a halt, but perhaps nowhere was that abrupt ending more stunning than in the locker room of the UK rifle team.
—Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2020
An out-of-nowhere VP choice might be enough to generate a boomlet of media attention, but there are limited options.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2020
As were the Goin' to Work Pistons from 2002-2008, and the out-of-nowhere Tigers from 2006, Justin Verlander's first two no-hitters and the four straight AL Central Division championships.
—Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2020
Adjective
His out-of-nowhere arrival echoed that of Krulak and gave some assurance that someone with a record for business success was at the wheel.
—al, 25 Jan. 2023
Not a single out-of-nowhere team had made the title game in the CFP era, dating back to 2014.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
The seemingly-out-of-nowhere topic of death was spurred by a question from A.J. Hawk following a brief chat about what Rodgers did during the Packers' bye week.
—Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2022
This movie takes the lake-house-in-the-middle-of-nowhere thriller to the next level.
—Lucia Tonelli, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
Come Away With Me, released Feb. 26, 2002, was a monolithic, out-of-nowhere success in a way that’s almost hard to imagine now, when few releases can capture more than a week’s worth of attention.
—Dallas News, 5 May 2022
But Poker Face in general has a snappish rhythm, a retro luster, a good eye for the lonely grandeur of American nowhere towns.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 25 Jan. 2023
By placing these stories on the imaginary CAPS in some unspecified near-future, Bennani is able to touch on the unending refugee crises of today, the traumas of dislocation, the nowhere of migrant camps and detention centers.
—Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
Loren is looking for a babysitter — but her parents are nowhere to be found after a blowout fight left the family's relationship severed Loren and Alexei Brovarnik aren't getting any help from her parents.
—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
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