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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
about-face .
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Examples
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Suddenly, without warning, the small man about-faced and planted one on my cheek seconds before the camera clicked.
Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011
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Marvel has clearly about-faced on killing off major Ultimate characters -- even ones with movies in the works -- just in time for a story that does it a whole lot worse than I think Millar and Hitch would have.
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Given that this building nearly began construction in early 2009 before Boston Properties about-faced and put it on hold — the firm even had ordered the steel — it would seem to be at the top of the queue for new office buildings this cycle.
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Suddenly, without warning, the small man about-faced and planted one on my cheek seconds before the camera clicked.
Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011
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But most of the markets that showed those signs have since about-faced, and are now showing positive monthly appreciation.
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The huge bear shook its head once and growled loudly, then about-faced and loped away upstream.
Hell’s Gate Stephen Frey 2009
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The huge bear shook its head once and growled loudly, then about-faced and loped away upstream.
Hell’s Gate Stephen Frey 2009
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The huge bear shook its head once and growled loudly, then about-faced and loped away upstream.
Hell’s Gate Stephen Frey 2009
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Mission accomplished, they about-faced and marched back into the dusk.
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Obama is noncommittal and about-faced on his earlier pledge for a 16 month Iraq combat troop withdrawal.
Vying To Be Toughest 2008
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