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Sudden death (sport)
Sudden death (sport): tie-break format where the first score in an extra period wins. Used in NFL overtime (now modified), IIHF playoff hockey, and the sudden death phase of soccer penalty shootouts.
Sudden idiopathic hearing loss
Sudden idiopathic hearing loss (SIHL, ICD-11 AB55; also idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, 突聋) is unexplained inner-ear hearing loss developing within 72 hours, usually unilateral, treated urgently with corticosteroids.
Sudden Impact
Sudden Impact is a 1983 American action thriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, the fourth of the five Dirty Harry films, introducing "Go ahead, make my day."
Sudden infant death-dysgenesis of the testes syndrome
Sudden infant death-dysgenesis of the testes syndrome (SIDDT), also called TSPYL1-related syndrome, is a lethal autosomal recessive disorder of infants with testicular dysgenesis in 46,XY males, staccato cry, autonomic dysfunction, and death before 12 months from cardiorespiratory arrest; described mainly in Old Order Amish families.
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL, sudden deafness): rapid ≥30 dB inner-ear hearing loss over 3 frequencies within 3 days, usually unilateral, 90% idiopathic, an ENT emergency treated with corticosteroids.
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake (Ōhashi Atake no Yūdachi) is an 1857 Hiroshige woodblock print showing pedestrians crossing a bridge over the Sumida River in a downpour.
Sudden stratospheric warming
A sudden stratospheric warming is a rapid temperature rise of up to 50 °C in the winter polar stratosphere that reverses the polar winds and disrupts surface weather.
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy) is a sudden, non-traumatic, non-drowning death in epilepsy excluding status epilepticus. Key facts: 1.2/1,000 patient-years in adults, GTCS frequency as dominant risk factor, respiratory-cardiac arrest mechanism.
Suddenly (1954 film)
Suddenly (1954) is a Lewis Allen film noir thriller starring Frank Sinatra as assassin John Baron, who takes a California family hostage to shoot the President; based on Richard Sale's story "Active Duty," later withdrawn after the JFK assassination.
Suddenly Susan
Suddenly Susan, NBC sitcom 1996–2000, 93 episodes, starring Brooke Shields as Susan Keane, a single columnist at San Francisco magazine The Gate alongside Judd Nelson and Kathy Griffin.
Suddenly, Last Summer (film)
Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 Columbia Pictures drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift, adapted by Gore Vidal from Tennessee Williams's one-act play about a lobotomy plot concealing a cousin's cannibalistic death.
Śuddhodana
Śuddhodana, also known as King Suddhodana (净饭王), was the father of Siddhārtha Gautama, the future Buddha, and the leader of the Śākya clan at Kapilavastu, near the present Nepal–India border.
Suddilage Kathawa
Suddilage Kathawa (සුද්දිලාගේ කතාව, "Suddi's Story") is a Sinhala novel by Simon Navagattegama, set in a dry-zone village and filmed in 1985 by Dharmasiri Bandaranayake.
Sudebnik of 1497
The Sudebnik of 1497 (Судебник 1497 года) is traditionally regarded as the first surviving law code of the unified Russian state, adopted in September 1497 by Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow.
Sudebnik of 1550
The Sudebnik of 1550 (Судебник 1550 года), also called the Tsar's Sudebnik, is the law code of the Russian state, prepared in June 1550 under Tsar Ivan IV.
Sudeep Bhoja
Sudeep Bhoja is a semiconductor engineer who co-founded d-Matrix, a Santa Clara, California AI chip company, in 2019, serving as chief technology officer and chief architect of its Corsair accelerator.
Sudeepa (ಸುದೀಪ್ ಸಂಜೀವ್)
Sudeepa, born Sudeep Sanjeev (ಸುದೀಪ್ ಸಂಜೀವ್) in 1973, is an Indian actor known as Kichcha Sudeep who works primarily in Kannada cinema and hosted Bigg Boss Kannada from 2013.
Sudeley Castle
Sudeley Castle is a 15th-century castle near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, best known as the home and burial place of Queen Katherine Parr, and the only private castle in England with a queen buried in its grounds.
Sudenitsa Tesserae
Sudenitsa Tesserae, a Venus tessera terrain feature (Slavic fate deities), centered at 33°N 270°E, 4,200 km across; known for elevation-dependent radar emissivity, ferroelectric mineral suggestions, and preserved impact-ejecta fines.
Süderbrarup
Süderbrarup (Danish: Sønder Brarup), municipality in Angeln, Schleswig-Holstein, seat of the Amt Süderbrarup. Home of the Thorsberger Moor Iron Age war-booty sacrifice, a 1,200-urn marketplace urnfield, the Kummerhy mound, and the Brarup-Markt funfair.
Sudesh Mahto
Sudesh Mahto is an Indian politician who leads the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) Party, served as Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand, and represented Silli four times.
Sudest Island
Sudest Island, also Tagula or Vanatinai, is the largest island of the Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea; home of the Sudest (Tagula) language and site of the 1888 Australian gold rush.
Sudeten German Party
Sudeten German Party (Sudetendeutsche Partei, SdP), founded by Konrad Henlein in 1933 as the Heimatfront; far-right party of Czechoslovakia's German minority that won the 1935 election, issued the 1938 Carlsbad Program, and served Nazi Germany's dismemberment of Czechoslovakia.
Sudeten Germans
Sudeten Germans (Sudetendeutsche), ethnic Germans of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia; about 3 million in interwar Czechoslovakia, annexed to Germany in 1938, and almost entirely expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1945-46.
Sudetenland
Sudetenland: German-speaking borderlands of Czechoslovakia, annexed by Nazi Germany under the Munich Agreement of 29 September 1938; organized as Reichsgau Sudetenland under Konrad Henlein, dismembered context, postwar expulsion of about 3 million Germans.
Sudetes
The Sudetes are a Central European mountain range, about 300 km long, across Czechia, Poland, and Germany; a rejuvenated Variscan orogen whose highest range, the Krkonoše, hosts the world's first transboundary UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Sudev Nair
Sudev Nair (born 1985, Mumbai) is an Indian actor, director, and writer; Kerala State Film Award Best Actor winner for My Life Partner (2014), creator of Not Fit, lead of Kammattam, and Karmadi in Toxic (2026).
Sudha Chandran
Sudha Chandran, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer and film/TV actress; lost her right leg to gangrene after a 1981 accident, returned to dance on a Jaipur Foot, starred as herself in Mayuri (1985), and won the National Film Award Special Jury Award.
Sudha Murty
Sudha Murty, born 1950 in Karnataka, is an Indian author and philanthropist who founded the Infosys Foundation in 1996 and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2024.
Sudha Ramakrishnan
Sudha Ramakrishnan is an Indian National Congress politician and lawyer who has represented the Mayiladuthurai constituency of Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha since 2024.