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turnabout

noun as in about-face

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To Levitt and Dubner, this historical turnabout teaches that technological innovation solves problems, and if it creates new problems, innovation will solve those, too.

That’s quite a turnabout from recent all-time highs for both.

Even Michele Bachmann recently made an abrupt turnabout on the issue, declaring it a settled question.

The recent turnabout is, ironically, a bit awkward for some of Obama's backers in the political press.

The incredible turnabout of Martin Drengo, the attack on David, who was killed, but somehow was not dead.

That is—until there was a question of turnabout being fair play in a world where natives took their skinning literally!

Turnabout may not always be fair play in the gulfs between the stars.

In the course of its fighting the monster may have to turnabout.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to turnabout, such as: change of direction, flip-flop, reversal, turnaround, u-turn, and reverse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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