turned around

past tense of turn around

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned around
Verb
  • Over the weekend and early Monday, stock futures were little changed in overnight trading.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Was your cruise itinerary changed?
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Though rates have fluctuated, China's now stand at 30%.
    George Petras, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Zelensky’s popularity has fluctuated from the highs of over 90 percent at the start of the war to still well above 60 percent.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement The study involved 29 patients with Huntington’s disease who were given one of two doses of gene therapy that targeted the huntingtin gene, which is mutated in the disease.
    Alice Park, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The protesters had by then mutated into a mob.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On a saddle between the first and second 13er, Michelle gamely smiled when Ryan snapped the last photo that was ever taken of her, hiking along the ridge backdropped by the mountain’s famous east face with the Bowl of Tears shimmering far below.
    Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Justin was also snapped carrying his 1-year-old son, Jack Blues, as Hailey walked ahead of the pair on the field.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While six players qualified automatically for the teams heading to Bethpage this year, the number has varied over time, leaving the captains with another six players to choose at their own discretion.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That lack of consistency is why belief in Barzal has varied over the years.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Affleck, who wore a face mask while delivering her remarks, then shifted her focus to COVID-19 and long-term health concerns.
    Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Dan Ponder, a political science professor at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, said that as the state has shifted to the right, the GOP primary, rather than the general election, is now the real contest for statewide office.
    Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • By the end of the two-hour, 19-song set, Cannon’s energy had not wavered, but his questions did.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • His curiosity about the stars never wavered, and Smith, a 17-year-old freshman at Caltech in Pasadena, was one of two local students recently named a 2025 Davidson Fellow.
    Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Turned around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20around. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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