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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, same as turn, 6.

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  • But bottom-of-the-barrel poll ratings at the end of his term, the wholesale back-turn that millions of voters did on the GOP in the 2008 presidential election, and the polls that show that a majority of Americans want out of Iraq and Afghanistan and are squeamish over further erosion of civil liberties are resounding proof that even if Bush had staged 9/11 to clamp a vise grip on power, it didn't work.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: A Decade Later, 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Still Alive and Well Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011

  • But bottom-of-the-barrel poll ratings at the end of his term, the wholesale back-turn that millions of voters did on the GOP in the 2008 presidential election, and the polls that show that a majority of Americans want out of Iraq and Afghanistan and are squeamish over further erosion of civil liberties are resounding proof that even if Bush had staged 9/11 to clamp a vise grip on power, it didn't work.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: A Decade Later, 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Still Alive and Well Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011

  • "Turn back-turn your horses!" was the shout up the whole line, and, backing, plunging, rearing, and kicking, the horses which had been proceeding down the road reversed front and went off towards

    The Civil War in America 1861

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