turned around

past tense of turn around

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned around
Verb
  • In 2020, Tony Romo’s 10-year, $180 million CBS contract changed the game.
    Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Her nails were also changed for each look.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Withdrawals leading to walkovers were more common in the early years of the competition, partly why the number of matches per season fluctuated slightly in the opening decades.
    Will Jeanes, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • However, the total number of states at this price point for gas has fluctuated over the summer.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The new open world setup is all about scanning and scavenging for items, as well as taking down various Immortals (creatures mutated due to Femto).
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Ella Purnell leads the cast as optimistic Vault-dweller Lucy, who is forced to the surface to rescue her father, opposite Walton Goggins, who plays the Ghoul, a bounty hunter who mutated and has survived the 200 years since the Great War.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Quarterback and comedian snapped a picture together.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Rhamondre Stevenson also out-snapped the rookie 46 to 25 on offense, a ratio that ought to even out considering Henderson was the only one who broke a tackle between them.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Individual year-over-year market values varied greatly, ranging from an over 16% increase one year to an under 1% increase another.
    Madeline King, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency shows timelines to get FEMA aid flowing to Wisconsin have varied greatly across presidential administrations, spanning from just a few days to more than two months.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, the genre's pop crossover has drastically shifted.
    Marcus K. Dowling, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Over the past two years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shifted its focus to combating specific practices within surveillance advertising, particularly those involving sensitive data, lack of consent or deceptive and unfair practices.
    Jodi Daniels, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The pressure and heat of deep burial and tectonic events over eons have transformed the silt into a hard metamorphic rock, and the microbial carbon in it has metamorphosed into graphite.
    Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • His beam wavered on a patch of blankness, or the corner of an amp, and then began to roam the stage in desperation, scanning here and scanning there—until, from the darkness, the voice of Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden’s singer, was heard.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Her comfortable lead over her four primary challengers never wavered as votes rolled in.
    Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Turned around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20around. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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