How to Pronounce "Abruptly"

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adverb
without warning; suddenly or unexpectedly:
Not noticing that the car in front of him had stopped abruptly, he rear-ended it.

in few words and without using any polite formulas; brusquely:
My 14-year-old son was calling; as soon as I picked up, he asked abruptly, “How long till you get home?”

steeply; sharply:
At one end, the meadow flowed into a large valley; at the other, it dropped off abruptly in a cliff.

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