Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned around
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A couple from Texas visiting my mom’s church changed everything.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026 -
Indeed, Earth’s properties have changed dramatically over the course of its inhabited history, and will likely change further as life on our world continues to evolve.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Feb. 2026
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Its budget has fluctuated since its initial startup of $10 million.—
Jeffrey Schweers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
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At the same time, silver prices have been volatile lately and premiums have fluctuated.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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In the mid-’90s, scientists found a handful of cystic-fibrosis carriers who lacked vas deferens, despite only one of their CFTR copies being mutated.—
Roxanne Khamsi,
The Atlantic,
15 Feb. 2026
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Zhang, of Purdue, studies bioelectrical signaling in zebra fish, which develop striking extra-long tails when a certain ion channel is mutated.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2026
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Power poles were snapped and toppled near the Louisiana towns of Jena, Cheneyville and Donaldsonville, the weather service reported.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Feb. 2026
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Ebba Andersson tumbled and snapped the ski binding in the second leg, giving Norway the advantage on a day where warm weather caused slushy corners that created havoc in the early stages.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
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Polls have varied in the primary; an Emerson College poll from mid-January found Talarico up by 9 points, while a late January University of Houston poll found Crockett up by 8 points.—
Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Feb. 2026
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But some of the numbers varied widely.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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If the robot learns to pick up a bottle in an exact position and the bottle is shifted slightly, a system that only imitates will repeat the original gesture and fail.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
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This is one of the missions originally awarded to United Launch Alliance under the NSSL Phase 2 contracts, but shifted to SpaceX after delays in ULA’s Vulcan certification.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Feb. 2026
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The show that began as a bottom-up look at the cutthroat world of finance has metamorphosed into something more dismal.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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The pressure and heat of deep burial and tectonic events over eons have transformed the silt into a hard metamorphic rock, and the microbial carbon in it has metamorphosed into graphite.—
Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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But at the time, and for the rest of his life, his resolve never wavered.—
Jim Williams,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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But through it all, his devotion to her never wavered.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Turned around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20around. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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