turned around

past tense of turn around

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned around
Verb
  • The team also changed the development rinse process to trap polymers at the air-liquid interface.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
  • It's been years since Democratic voter Lea Ash felt hopeful about a politician, but that changed recently.
    Elena Moore, NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Since then, the count has fluctuated between 16 and 55 players, dropping again to only 7 players in 2024 and 2025.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But from around 1988 to 1995, a number of labs identified a whole series of genes that, when mutated, could actually increase lifespan [in yeast and animals].
    Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Nowadays, the birds would be mutated.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Earlier, the Blue Raiders snapped Watertown’s historic win streak at 103 games and handed Sandwich its only loss.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
  • She was snapped next to two of her friends and in front of a few decorations for Diwali.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The market reaction to these hyperscalers' reports varied widely this week, and investors appear to have different reasons to be optimistic about each name.
    Alex Harring,Yun Li, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Research on the relationship between acetaminophen and Autism Spectrum Disorder has varied, but many physicians say evidence does not support a causal relationship.
    Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While Europe remains an anchor, the center of gravity has shifted east—and increasingly, south.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • And though Barfield Brown has shifted from collaborator to founder, her philosophy remains the same.
    James Manso, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 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
  • And despite their struggles at times, the Dolphins haven’t wavered from investing in those young players in this 1-6 start.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Scheyer’s conviction in Knueppel never wavered.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Turned around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20around. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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