volte-face

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Recent Examples of volte-face Britain is not the only country pressed into making a volte-face. London Business School, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025 The realities of Putin’s momentum, coupled with Washington’s volte-face, have led to a clear mood shift in Kyiv. Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025 Read More: How Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Pushed Through Asia’s First Cannabis Legalization Cannabis advocacy groups and businesses have voiced their opposition to the policy volte-face, staging rallies and threatening a legal challenge against the premier. Pathom Sangwongwanich / Bloomberg, TIME, 27 June 2024 The policy volte-face is another blow to Thailand’s nascent cannabis industry after decriminalization was pitched as a way to boost agricultural income and wellness tourism. TIME, 10 May 2024 Jordan’s participation signaled a kind of volte-face for a state that has been unsparing in its criticism of Israel’s six-month military campaign in the Gaza Strip. Matt Bradley, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2024 The Brits demanded a volte-face, thought her European stylist Tati Cotliar, fashion director of riotous cool-girl mag Buffalo Zine. Alice Newbold, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2024 But some are less positive about the apparent volte-face. WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023 By interring the theory, Chief Justice Roberts executed a transparent volte-face. Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for volte-face
Noun
  • The policy represents a reversal for Fannie and Freddie, the two entities under government conservatorship that guarantee more than half of America’s mortgages.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 25 June 2025
  • Trump and his party have made the rollback of LGBTQ rights a nationwide priority, and more encroachments—perhaps even the reversal of Obergefell—appear to be on conservatives’ radar.
    Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Arguments for return-to-office would need to be compelling to convince voters and lawmakers that Newsom’s about-face is the better policy for the state and its workers.
    Erik Skindrud, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
  • But five days later, the attorney general did an about-face in his follow-up letter to the agencies, drawing the judge’s wrath in a lawsuit brought in Miami federal court by an immigration coalition and others challenging the constitutionality of the state law.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025

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“Volte-face.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volte-face. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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