turned around

Definition of turned aroundnext
past tense of turn around

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned around
Verb
  • Kolb says the Fall/Winter 2026 schedule changed to lighten the load on the Monday holiday, without such a long break between the New York and London shows, which organizers trialled last year.
    Hilary Milnes, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But a year after Sabathia’s induction, have times already changed?
    Jayson Stark, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Super Bowl ticket prices have fluctuated in recent years, though average ticket costs have typically trended upward, peaking in 2024.
    Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
  • When Lillie Salas saw the Illini Republicans’ post, her emotions fluctuated from disbelief to outrage.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 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
  • Ari Long made four three-pointers while scoring 16 points to lead the Ducks (18-8, 6-7), who had a four-game winning streak snapped.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Photographers snapped a shot of Robert and Jane jointly holding the letter and looking at each other.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • How pronounced the link was between particulate exposure and death varied by season and demographics.
    CBS News, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Different species of Prototaxites might have varied in size, but the largest would have really towered over the landscape at a time when plants were less than 1 meter tall, said Kevin Boyce, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Stanford University.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Another image shifted the focus to friendship, showing Grey posing alongside longtime friend Tracy Pollan.
    Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Leonard Bernstein hosted a cocktail party, before hopping across the street to play Carnegie Hall, whose opening in 1891 shifted the center of the city’s culture uptown.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Feb. 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
  • In December, the judges ruled Lai was the mastermind of the conspiracies and never wavered in his intention to destabilize the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
    Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • However, as our employee survey reminds us every year, people are here to serve the mission, and over the last five years our founders and staff have never wavered in their commitment to helping build a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy and productive life.
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
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“Turned around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20around. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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