as in turning (to)
to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage
when the sales representative refused to help us, we went to the store manager
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Drayton is a political consulting entrepreneur and the former director of the Mecklenburg County Democratic Party.—
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That later Presidents did indeed engage in military action without consulting Congress, creeping on to a power reserved for the legislature, is a fact of the past century and a half of American history but especially since the rise of the national-security state during the Cold War.—
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3 Mar. 2026
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“Going (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/going%20%28to%29. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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