Sudden Events
- Collision, an impact between two moving objects
- Traffic collision, also known as a car crash
- Aviation accidents and incidents, airplane crash
- Crash (computing), a condition where a program ceases to respond
- Head crash, in which a hard disk drive's read-write head physically collides with the disk
- Stock market crash, a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices
- Cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating
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Famous quotes containing the words sudden and/or events:
“The broken ridge of the hills
was the line of a lover’s shoulder,
his arm-turn, the path to the hills,
the sudden leap and swift thunder
of mountain boulders, his laugh.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)