turn to
verb
turned to; turning to; turns to
: to apply oneself to work : act vigorously
… all hands turn to and build a church and a jail …—
Mark Twain
Mark TwainExamples of turn to in a Sentence
no need to turn to violence when we can talk things out peacefully
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After avoiding a strike with a last-minute deal, the Los Angeles School District is turning to state officials for help funding its new contracts with the unions representing 70,000 of its workers.
—Tom Wait, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
To address this, researchers are increasingly turning to LBMs, which are trained on extensive multitask datasets.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
Similarly, during the pandemic, when children could only learn remotely and thousands of students couldn’t afford computers, Barbara and I turned to the Dells, who provided laptops for learning.
—Ray Dalio, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
The rest remain in storage, awaiting their turn to be properly restored, a tricky job that can take months.
—Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
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Tom Wait, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
To address this, researchers are increasingly turning to LBMs, which are trained on extensive multitask datasets.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
Similarly, during the pandemic, when children could only learn remotely and thousands of students couldn’t afford computers, Barbara and I turned to the Dells, who provided laptops for learning.
—Ray Dalio, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
The rest remain in storage, awaiting their turn to be properly restored, a tricky job that can take months.
—Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Turn to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turn%20to. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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