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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
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2026
Reach out to arrange room cleaning, turnover, dry cleaning of clothes, and other services.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2026
Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, Raven's parents said, her personal effects, including her Virginia driver's license, which bore no donor designation, had not yet been turned over to the family, leaving them no meaningful way to challenge LifeNet's determination in real time.
—Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
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Noun
The Panthers also won the turnover battle, forcing 10.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2026
Reach out to arrange room cleaning, turnover, dry cleaning of clothes, and other services.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
Rose Struck, for instance, happens to be inspired by frozen flowers as winter turns over into spring.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, Raven's parents said, her personal effects, including her Virginia driver's license, which bore no donor designation, had not yet been turned over to the family, leaving them no meaningful way to challenge LifeNet's determination in real time.
—Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turnover
Noun
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The Hornets essentially had their full rotation available, missing Tosan Evbuomwan (G League), PJ Hall (G League), Liam McNeeley (G League), Antonio Reeves (G League) and Tidjane Salaun (left calf strain) on Tuesday.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
18 Mar. 2026
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Vasil was stretched out this spring while competing for a spot in the starting rotation.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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The plan calls for Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza to relinquish their weapons, placing the responsibility of all arms in the hands of a new governing authority.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
20 Mar. 2026
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Microsoft relinquished its right to be OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider, but retained a clause that requires all of OpenAI’s API calls, or calls to access its AI models, to be routed through Azure, the reporting noted.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
19 Mar. 2026
Verb
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In the show notes handed to audience members at Marc Jacobs’s Fall/Winter 2026 presentation, at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in early February, the designer included a section titled Credits and Receipts.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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The White House handed a major boon to its tech industry allies on Friday, unveiling recommendations to Congress to curb state laws that limit artificial intelligence.—
Cat Zakrzewski,
Washington Post,
20 Mar. 2026
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Trump has criticized mail in ballots for years and used it as a centerpiece of his efforts to overturn his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Mar. 2026
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The president has criticized mail-in ballots for years and used it as a centerpiece of his efforts to overturn his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
Verb
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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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Investigators rendered first aid at the scene, and Parker was transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Madden said.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
17 Mar. 2026
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That shot rendering the Cherry Blossom tree using the pink clouds is stunning.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
17 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 24 Mar. 2026.
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