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.
Example Sentences
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Our columnist took part in a longevity fitness challenge to find out how well he’s aging and learn how people are turning back the clock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
And while it’s easy to create wealth through raising billions in capital or taking on debt, turning paper money into actual cash is harder to do.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
Zooming out, though, it’s even more newsworthy that he’s turning his attention to Andrews at all.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026
A further comment said the site had become waterlogged, turning a "once beautiful forest" into a "fly-tipping incident".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Without turning his head, Fin-Kedinn said, ‘Did father ever mention the Soul-Eaters?’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"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
Oliver cheerily delivered a recap of stories from the last five months before turnings serious, calling the strike “an immensely difficult time” for all those in the industry.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
“My publishing history’s just so checkered with sudden reversals, ups and downs, confusions, wrong turnings, and at the end of my life, virtually, it seems like things are starting to work out,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2018
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
