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- verb Present participle of
about-face .
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Examples
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Sony On the other hand, moving your character around takes some practice; you may find yourself about-facing into the floor
Bust Out the Big (Toy) Guns Dennis Tang 2011
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The Liberals attempted to distance themselves from their platform plank the other day, before about-facing when reporters pointed out that Stephane Dion had been caught in an untruth by claiming otherwise.
Global Warming Is So, Like, 2007 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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The Liberals attempted to distance themselves from their platform plank the other day, before about-facing when reporters pointed out that Stephane Dion had been caught in an untruth by claiming otherwise.
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Since about-facing seemed more pathetic than I could bear, I spent the most awkward thirty seconds ever at a urinal as ten of them glared at me, five-dollar bills scattered across the floor.
High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006
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Here was this man who had come to break up the meeting and to see to it that no juvenile court was organized in Albany, completely about-facing when attention was called to him.
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And yet it went on for two hours or more until the fastest shuckers had gone through the pile and were now about-facing, when the excitement as they neared the close of the race deepened every moment.
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901
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Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed prices falling 0.6 percent over the last two months of the third quarter, about-facing from a 0.4 percent rise between July and August.
unknown title 2009
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Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed prices falling 0.6 percent over the last two months of the third quarter, about-facing from a 0.4 percent rise between July and August.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2009
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Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed prices falling 0.6 percent over the last two months of the third quarter, about-facing from a 0.4 percent rise between July and August.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2009
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Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed prices falling 0.6 percent over the last two months of the third quarter, about-facing from a 0.4 percent rise between July and August.
Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal 2009
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