turns on
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“A system in which a person’s right to liberty turns on financial resources compromises public safety and raises equal protection and due process concerns,” Associate Justice Joshua P. Groban wrote in his concurrence.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
The answer turns on a woman named Lisa Cook.
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026
Virginia Woolf complained that Dickens compensated for weak plotting by “throwing another handful of people on the fire,” but the plot of Dickens’s 1865 novel, “Our Mutual Friend,” turns on death by water.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
On 27 March, as Suryavanshi blows out the candles, the question quietly turns on its head: not whether he is ready - but whether the world is.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
She must be thinking the same thing because she turns on the spot, grabs a trash bag from the kitchen, and disappears into her bedroom.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
