1
: a turn resembling the letter U
especially
: a 180-degree turn made by a vehicle in a road
2
: something (such as a reversal of policy) resembling a U-turn
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Examples of U-turn in a Sentence
an abrupt U-turn of her support for the candidate after hearing the news of his misdeeds
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Instead of offering viewers a glimpse of the big reveal in each episode, we get walloped with a U-turn over the course of two or three episodes.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
The news has Vance’s (Rocky Carroll) plane to Venezuela making a mid-air U-turn.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
That is a policy, Sebo acknowledged, that would force the chatbot and large language model industry into a dramatic U-turn.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
But over the course of its third term, the party made a U-turn and hardened its stance on rapprochement with the West.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
The news has Vance’s (Rocky Carroll) plane to Venezuela making a mid-air U-turn.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
That is a policy, Sebo acknowledged, that would force the chatbot and large language model industry into a dramatic U-turn.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
But over the course of its third term, the party made a U-turn and hardened its stance on rapprochement with the West.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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“U-turn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/U-turn. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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