turning
- active adj.
- featuring adj.
- flexuous adj.
- operating adj.
- revolving adj.
- vertiginous adj.
- whirling adj.
- adjustment n.
- angle n.
- bow n.
- circuit n.
- conversion n.
- departure n.
- deviation n.
- divergence n.
- diversion n.
- genuflection n.
- gyration n.
- metanoia n.
- regeneration n.
- reverse n.
- revolution n.
- rotation n.
- tendency n.
- turn n.
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But I’m starting to get choosier, turning down some potential assignments and not pursuing others.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
A quarter-century later, that fantasy is turning into reality inside a 40-foot-tall clean room at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory just outside the Washington, D.C.,
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Texans turning on their TVs this summer have seen Talarico talk about the importance of loving God and neighbor in a spot featuring his grandfather.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
An almost empty new build estate has sparked anger because rules state that the houses can be only sold as holiday homes, with one would-be buyer saying her grandparents would be "turning in their graves".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
‘It’s a cinema ticket,’ I say, turning it over in my hands.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
"We get a lot of head turnings, if people are driving by, you can tell by their eyes they're just like, what?"
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025
His initial Sleeping Beauty Castle was built utilizing plywood, PVC, wood turnings and cast resin veneer, but he has since updated the structure with largely polyurethane foam boards and 3D-printed materials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
“He didn’t need any instruction really. He just took control, flown us around, made some turnings and basic maneuvers,” Hughes said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Once I adopted the Giovanni-Hans constraint, I saw that each of the four wheels had to follow a concentric circular path, and these paths had identical radii in both extreme right and extreme left turnings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2012
But still, in the end, it was a memorization trick, like counting turnings in the ducts and keeping the quota count.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
