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turn

[turn] / tɜrn /
















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“Is there time to turn it around? I guess. But there’s also time for it to get worse — and that’s the way it seems to be heading.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The president of the United States is about to turn 80.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

The country is dialing back operations at the plants that turn crude oil into feedstock for materials such as plastics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Let’s now turn to the daily charts of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two leading underwriters for these blockbuster IPOs, to assess their near-term technical direction.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

And so as the huge vans rumbled down the Lagerstrasse the next day, I was standing in a corridor of the hospital waiting my turn at the eye clinic.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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