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as in to relinquish
to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress
reluctantly turned the ship over to the first mate while he went below to try to stop the leak
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as in to hand
to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another
turned the evidence over to the police
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as in to overturn
to turn on one's side or upside down
don't try to tell me the bucket turned over all by itself
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Recent Examples of turnover
ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
Fluid turnover rates might approach liters per day, and warming/stirring systems must prevent any thermal gradients.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
Tony Plohetski, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026
The tide has turned over the past two years.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Brayden Burries hit a 3-pointer, and after a turnover by Smith, Ivan Kharchenkov made a layup for an 11-point lead.
—ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
Fluid turnover rates might approach liters per day, and warming/stirring systems must prevent any thermal gradients.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
Verb
In 2024, a judge sanctioned Garza’s office for failing to turn over a document during a trial involving the 2019 death of Javier Ambler II, ordering prosecutors to reimburse the defense for obtaining it.
—Tony Plohetski, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026
The tide has turned over the past two years.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turnover
Noun
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The robot’s motions closely matched the operator’s, from arm swings and torso rotation to step length and leg lift, maintaining a high level of synchronization and rhythm, reports Techinasia.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2026
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The Heat then used a bench rotation of Kel’el Ware, Jaquez, Powell, Kasparas Jakucionis and Myron Gardner against the Spurs.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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The United States has offered Iran a 15-point proposal for a ceasefire that includes it relinquishing control of the strait, but at the same time has ordered thousands more troops to the region — possibly in preparation for a military attempt to wrest the waterway from Iran.—
David Rising,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Bohm’s lawsuit demands at least $3 million in damages and that his parents relinquish control of the accounts.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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The group was flown to Poland and transported to the Ukrainian border by US officials who then handed them over to Polish officials who escorted them across the border.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2026
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But passengers cannot just hand individual officers cash.—
Emma Hurt,
AJC.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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Forty-five years after Wong Kim Ark’s victory, the justices were pushed – after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor – to overturn that ruling and revoke citizenship for Japanese Americans born in the United States.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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This week’s wins could unleash a barrage of new lawsuits, even if the verdicts are overturned in the appellate courts, as the companies, their supporters, and many 1st Amendment experts expect.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2026
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The vehicle flipped and landed upside down in the ravine below.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Broker flipped hospices Four other hospices continued to use variations of Suite 205 as their address when billing Medicare and Medi-Cal in 2024.—
Jason Henry,
Daily News,
22 Mar. 2026
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His own parents left the nation that’s located 90 miles off the coast of Florida three years before the 1959 revolution that brought Castro to power.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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But Cursor has a problem, and that problem is called Claude Code, a competitor launched by Anthropic barely a year ago that helped unleash a revolution in coding via agentic AI.—
Matthew Heimer,
Fortune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Guten singled out the defense’s witness, Beatty, as too biased to render an impartial assessment, characterizing the social worker’s testimony as advocacy, not an expert opinion.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Across his multimedia practice, Aram’s project is one of disrupting the habits of classification that render aesthetic judgment perfunctory.—
Julian Stern,
Artforum,
24 Mar. 2026
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What happens when a movement built on peace sets off a chain of events that leaves a region fluent only in the language of violence?—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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Her aunt had resisted leaving the capital for two weeks, but was finally convinced to evacuate.—
Jason Rezaian,
New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Turnover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turnover. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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