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without warning
- completely taken aback by the neighbors' announcement that they were moving
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“Aback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aback. Accessed 24 Sep. 2021.
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