TURNED AROUND Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

turned around

verb

past tense of turn around

as in changed

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Also check whether the company has changed its privacy policy or added new controls.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
If records are made to be broken, then stats are made to be changed.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of changed

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The number of servers running the software has fluctuated from 19,000 in the week following the patch to about 12,000 in the weeks following that.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026
Since then, the results have fluctuated between middling and downright putrid, and entering this year, Aranda was said to be on his last leg.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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Nowadays, the concept has mutated into something more like a full RV kitchen without the RV (or outside the RV), sometimes packed into a box burly enough to survive an active war zone.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026
The Clash’s original line-up soldiered on until 1982, by which time punk rock had mutated into post-punk and new wave.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of mutated

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The Tigers called a trick play where quarterback Tate Reynolds feinted looking to the sideline for a playcall and the center snapped the ball to running back Gideon Davidson.

— Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2026
The loss at Lumen Field snapped a seven-match home unbeaten streak for the Reign (12-11-4) and moved Seattle below the playoff line into ninth.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of snapped

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The Dayton area has shed about half of its 90,000 factory jobs since 1990, according to federal data, after the North American Free Trade Agreement shifted many jobs to Mexico where auto parts could be made more cheaply.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, consumer priorities have shifted.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of shifted

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In the space of eight years, Tems has metamorphosed from one-to-watch to global megastar.

— Riann Phillip, Vogue, 15 July 2026
What was once an eye-catching clique of wayward teens bathed in purple hues has metamorphosed into a barren hellscape rife with drug-smuggling cartels, pistol-packin’ pimps, sugar daddies with mummification kinks and online streamers.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 24 May 2026

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