TURNED AROUND Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

turned around

verb

past tense of turn around

as in changed

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In 2025, World Tennis, the sport’s world governing body, changed the rules, allowing it essentially everywhere.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
But that all changed last week at the stroke of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s pen.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of changed

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The strange aspect of Hughes’s two-and-a-half-year spell at Liverpool is that appraisals of his performance fluctuated so wildly — and rarely presciently.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
This change was particularly noteworthy because credit ratings of Israel have fluctuated in the past few years.

— Sharon Udasin, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026

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The Clash’s original line-up soldiered on until 1982, by which time punk rock had mutated into post-punk and new wave.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 Aug. 2026
Of these, 16 of them proved to be viable and able to kill certain strains of Escherichia coli—including strains of the bacterium that had mutated to be resistant to the original reference genome of ΦX174.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026

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Ethan Ampadu snapped into tackles, Noah Okafor had the beating of Ferdi Kadioglu and Dominic Calvert-Lewin was a menace with his physicality.

— Stuart James, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
By the museum’s front steps, in the shadow of the main building, Qassem Hassan Nasser leaned in close with a camera and snapped a high-resolution photo of a wooden artifact.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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How the rule will work in practice shifted between when the memorandum of understanding was signed and what’s in the new CBA.

— Chris Johnston, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Still, the threats have increased for the islands of Niihau and Kauai because the storm's forecast track has shifted steadily eastward, the National Hurricane Center said.

— Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of shifted

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In the space of eight years, Tems has metamorphosed from one-to-watch to global megastar.

— Riann Phillip, Vogue, 15 July 2026
What was once an eye-catching clique of wayward teens bathed in purple hues has metamorphosed into a barren hellscape rife with drug-smuggling cartels, pistol-packin’ pimps, sugar daddies with mummification kinks and online streamers.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 24 May 2026

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