as in turned back
to drive back
using tree branches, the campers were able to turn away the charging fox, which was apparently rabid
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Recent Examples of turned away
Sometimes, they’d be turned away, and other times, ignored.
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David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
This is the perspective of someone who has turned away from a chaotic and increasingly cruel world.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Gaza has cast a long shadow over the Venice Film Festival this year, starting with some uncomfortable questions about the conflict for this year’s jury and culminating in a march that was ultimately turned away from the festival’s Ground Zero.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
California Highway Patrol officers at D’Oro Court and Deer Valley Road turned away a near-constant stream of cars when the evacuation order was still in effect.
—Jenavieve Hatch, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Riley, a Northern California native, who has always exuded a Zen-like geniality, was part of a generation of young American composers who had turned away from audience-alienating atonal music, which had been proselytized by their teachers in the science-minded postwar academy.
—William Robin, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
In 2016, a Bitcoin miner was turned away by six different CPAs.
—Patrick Camuso, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
There were additional chances, but the Royals were turned away in short order.
—Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2025
Marty often represents crooked hacks early in the process – think corrupt State Police union boss Dana Pullman, who would also be turned away at the door of the Parman House that evening.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
This is the perspective of someone who has turned away from a chaotic and increasingly cruel world.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Gaza has cast a long shadow over the Venice Film Festival this year, starting with some uncomfortable questions about the conflict for this year’s jury and culminating in a march that was ultimately turned away from the festival’s Ground Zero.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
California Highway Patrol officers at D’Oro Court and Deer Valley Road turned away a near-constant stream of cars when the evacuation order was still in effect.
—Jenavieve Hatch, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Riley, a Northern California native, who has always exuded a Zen-like geniality, was part of a generation of young American composers who had turned away from audience-alienating atonal music, which had been proselytized by their teachers in the science-minded postwar academy.
—William Robin, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
In 2016, a Bitcoin miner was turned away by six different CPAs.
—Patrick Camuso, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
There were additional chances, but the Royals were turned away in short order.
—Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2025
Marty often represents crooked hacks early in the process – think corrupt State Police union boss Dana Pullman, who would also be turned away at the door of the Parman House that evening.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned away
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That price is a high one and, in lieu of information on their potential backers, neither of the two parties turned back this weekend look able to meet it.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Instead, they were turned back to the locker room.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
17 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Like Einstein, Brassard feels repulsed by the way the particles in the Bell experiment seem to have firsthand awareness of each other despite being separated by, in principle, light-years of space.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Aug. 2025
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Kay’s particular diet was a recurring talking point on the show, with condiments such as ketchup and mayo among the foods that repulsed the TV voice of the Yankees.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Generated in the furnace of the sun, it’s deposited on the moon by solar winds that are repelled from Earth by our atmosphere and magnetic field.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Like so many here, she is repelled at the suggestion that the cost of peace with Russia could be the loss of large chunks of Ukrainian land.—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN Money,
18 Aug. 2025
Verb
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While there, the police allege that Pettway interfered with their actions, cursed at them, was difficult to deal with and resisted arrest when Trooper Brennan Kelly ordered him to go to the front of the house.—
Tresa Baldas,
Freep.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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South Korean authorities repeatedly asked Google to change the location names – but Google resisted and became embroiled in several other South Korean map-labeling controversies in the following years, Ahn wrote in a paper about the topic.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Turned away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20away. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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