turn about
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Unfortunately, our otherwise exceptional stay took an unexpected turn about a week after checkout.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
The two bowlers got similar amounts of turn, about 2.8 degrees, though Leach got more drift – 1.56 degrees to 0.75 – and was much more accurate.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024
The seven U.S. export plants already in service, including Freeport LNG, can turn about 13.8 billion cubic feet of gas into LNG each day.
From Reuters ● Feb. 16, 2023
But his trajectory took an unexpected turn about five years ago when he was asked to play Scott Lang, the hero of Marvel’s “Ant-Man,” which was to be directed by Edgar Wright.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
They slept as well as they could for the cold, turn and turn about, in a nook among great jagged pinnacles of weathered rock; at least they were sheltered from the easterly wind.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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