Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned around
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San Francisco ran for 174 yards against the Falcons, sparking a 20-10 win that might have changed the course of the Niners’ season.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025 -
Though all that has changed, the town has managed to preserve its Victorian architecture, and its downtown and waterfront were deemed National Historic Landmarks.—
Noreen Kompanik,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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Finch cited Oklahoma City as an example of a team that changed the roles of players throughout its rotation depending on matchups, noting the minutes for Thunder Isaiah Hartenstein fluctuated.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
18 Oct. 2025
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The value of Canadian lumber has also fluctuated.—
Adam Taylor,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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Nowadays, the birds would be mutated.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025
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Stardom has splintered, expanded, mutated in the decades since the fall of the studio system that minted and owned its stars under contract.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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Richardson sustained the injury and was hospitalized after a stretching band snapped, sending an attached pole forcibly against his face.—
Matt Audilet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
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Yet when Nelson applied force in the opposite direction, the phone snapped in half, not at the hinge but along the antenna lines on the left side.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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The rates varied from a low of 25% in Colorado to a high of more than 40% in West Virginia.—
Jonel Aleccia,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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Ramirez is believed to have killed at least 15 people; because his victims varied in age, gender and background, that made Ramirez’s crimes extremely hard to predict.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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The federal government’s policies on enforcement have not shifted, making further local-federal clashes likely in the coming months.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
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Teresa shifted forward a bit, so her toes peeked over the edge of the roof.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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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Through every challenge — from the uncertainty of COVID to the strains of tariffs — his optimism never wavered.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
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Unable to attend the hearings to hear those words were Joan and Terry, the aging family matriarchs who have never wavered in their support, the cousins said.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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