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using tree branches, the campers were able to turn away the charging fox, which was apparently rabid
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But Blackwood and the penalty-kill unit turned away all three of those chances for the Sharks to get on the scoreboard.
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Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 27 Nov. 2025
In 2023, a number of restaurants in Barcelona’s city center came under fire for reportedly turning away solo diners during peak tourist seasons, as well as setting minimum order requirements for terrace seating and introducing time caps to manage the crowd.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
The brother then turned to the temple on Sunday, which offers free cremations, but was also turned away for lacking the document.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
She was originally trained in Straussian scholarship—a reading of classical political thought that criticizes the modern turn away from the sources of moral authority toward liberalism and, in Strauss’s view, nihilism.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025
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Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 27 Nov. 2025
In 2023, a number of restaurants in Barcelona’s city center came under fire for reportedly turning away solo diners during peak tourist seasons, as well as setting minimum order requirements for terrace seating and introducing time caps to manage the crowd.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
The brother then turned to the temple on Sunday, which offers free cremations, but was also turned away for lacking the document.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
She was originally trained in Straussian scholarship—a reading of classical political thought that criticizes the modern turn away from the sources of moral authority toward liberalism and, in Strauss’s view, nihilism.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Turn away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turn%20away. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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