turned around

Definition of turned aroundnext
past tense of turn around

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned around
Verb
  • Almost immediately after oversight of TikTok’s US operations changed, misinformation started to spread about changes to the app’s new terms of service, including those that applied to location sharing and data collection, Fiesler said.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Carl Phillips on writing the poems that changed the course of his life.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Its overall population has fluctuated over the years, heavily attracting military members from local bases.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
  • His impact on recent games has fluctuated as his energy dipped.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • In subsequent analyses, Sankaran found that some of these mRNAs tend to derive from genes related to cell growth and, when mutated, are linked to cancers.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 1 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 points, 11 rebounds and a season-high seven assists, Jalen Brunson scored 26 points and the New York Knicks snapped their four-game losing streak with a 123-111 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 points, 11 rebounds and a season-high seven assists, Jalen Brunson scored 26 points and the New York Knicks snapped their four-game losing streak with a 123-111 victory over the Clippers on Wednesday night.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • However, performance and well-being both declined significantly when challenge levels varied frequently.
    Dilan Gomih, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Snowfall totals varied widely across the region.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • With the postponement, the NBA shifted the game to Sunday and the Timberwolves and Warriors played each other on back-to-back nights, as the second game was played on Monday as regularly scheduled.
    Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • As the night unfolded, the atmosphere shifted from elegant to electric.
    Michelle Edgar, Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • His confidence never wavered with us.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But earlier this month in an interview with the Santa Clarita Valley news outlet the Signal, Goodman disputed that the Mercado family owned the business and said the father had wavered about keeping the restaurant going.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
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“Turned around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20around. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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