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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sent (away)
turned away
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On Wednesday, 15 patients from Gaza and 31 of their relatives were scheduled to cross to Egypt, but more than half of the group was turned away, said Raed al-Nims, a spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent Society.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026 -
Around the same time that the Genetic Studies of Genius started to yield questionable results, our collective attention turned away from IQ toward EQ, when Peter Salovey and John Mayer coined the term emotional intelligence in 1990, and Daniel Goleman popularized it with his 1995 book.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Sent (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sent%20%28away%29. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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