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Recent Examples of turnabout The lawsuit reflects a stark philosophical turnabout from the position on gender identity issues taken during Democratic administrations. Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025 Loading your audio article OAKLAND — Less than a year after Alameda County agreed to his release from prison in an abrupt turnabout, a local resident has been charged with nine felonies in connection with a recent shooting. Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025 That's a turnabout from 2022, as developers took advantage of falling equipment costs and, at least in some areas, alternatives to lengthy grid-connection queues. Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025 The meetings represent a remarkable turnabout for Prince Mohammed, the oil-rich Gulf kingdom’s de facto leader who was shunned for a time in diplomatic circles. Ephrat Livni, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for turnabout
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reversal
Noun
  • The policy represents a reversal for Fannie and Freddie, the two entities under government conservatorship that guarantee more than half of America’s mortgages.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 25 June 2025
  • Trump and his party have made the rollback of LGBTQ rights a nationwide priority, and more encroachments—perhaps even the reversal of Obergefell—appear to be on conservatives’ radar.
    Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025

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