turns away

present tense third-person singular of turn away
as in turns back
to drive back using tree branches, the campers were able to turn away the charging fox, which was apparently rabid

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Recent Examples of turns away And surely enough, the club’s focus soon turns away from their increasingly baffling cold case and onto a more pressing one. Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025 Broadly, debanking is an umbrella term for when a bank turns away a potential customer, which can happen for a ton of reasons. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
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  • And Keenan Allen turns back the clock.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Law plays Jake Friedken, a hotshot restaurant owner whose life is thrown into chaos when his black sheep older brother, Vince (Jason Bateman), turns back up after years on the run.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • Wool rugs maintain their shape and texture more easily than any synthetic blend due to their durable fiber quality, which also naturally repels dirt and dust.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This creates a protective barrier that repels fingerprints and gives your appliances a sparkling finish.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • Instead of depending on ordinary thermal states, the researchers used a non-thermal TL liquid—a special one-dimensional electron system that resists thermalization.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The robot easily resists my first ginger shove.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Turns away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turns%20away. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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