How to Use turn against in a Sentence
turn against
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Both unions feared the ways in which their work could be turned against them.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
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The public hasn’t known them long enough to turn against them.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
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Even some of Karamo’s own supporters turned against her.
—Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 22 May 2024
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Players and coaches who had stood by him began to turn against him.
—Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
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Some of his famous friends and colleagues publicly turned against him.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
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Many Black and Hispanic men have turned against Democrats — and toward Trump.
—Axios, 13 July 2024
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So the tide may be turning against remote work in many managers’ minds, but not quite yet in practice.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 June 2023
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His family stayed in Berlin long enough for Miller to witness his own classmates turn against him.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2023
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In the West, some are rebelling by turning against progressivism.
—Itxu Díaz, National Review, 24 Nov. 2023
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Here’s why the tide is turning against remote work (rightly or wrongly).
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 June 2023
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Presales through the weekend give the film 6-8%, though that could vary quickly if exhibitors support the title or turn against it.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
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Many figures who have stepped outside of Trump's orbit, like Griffin, have turned against him.
—David Bauder, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
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Now our politics are so bad that even the Kennedy family has been turned against each other.
—Armond White, National Review, 16 Aug. 2023
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Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal paid a heavy price for turning against the Kremlin.
—Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
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And faced with more of them, even people concerned about climate change might turn against clean energy.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
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By turning against congestion pricing at the 11th hour, Samuelsen is standing in the way of billions in contract work for his own union.
—Alex Matthiessen, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
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All of this bodes poorly for anyone who hoped after last year that the tide was turning against ransomware actors.
—WIRED, 12 July 2023
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Most of the time, dictators fall when their military splits into factions, and one faction turns against the regime.
—Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 24 June 2023
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If the signal comes from inside the cell — if the reason for death is damage to the genome, for instance — then the process starts with the mitochondria turning against their host cell.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
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The mutiny has shaken Putin’s fundamental belief that a true patriot could not turn against the regime.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
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One defeat was enough for the Mexican fans to turn against their national team and their interim coach, Jaime Lozano.
—Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
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But, eventually, each of them turned against the movement, believing that such a confrontation with the regime would do more harm than good.
—Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
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But even when given a seat at the table, like in New Mexico, the industry has turned against reform efforts.
—Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 24 June 2024
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More perilously, French public opinion is turning against the war.
—Ania Nussbaum, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
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But in 1981, the Lakers’ verdict stupefies Westhead, who doesn’t see his exit coming even as the team’s marquee name turns against him.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
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Sanctions have not brought down the economy or led Russia’s leading business tycoons to turn against the Kremlin.
—Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 25 June 2023
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In fact, the Times is overflowing with examples of its readership turning against the paper.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
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In doing so, the Democratic president turned against the 2020 rallying cry of some members of his own party.
—Houston Keene, Fox News, 15 May 2023
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Sign up The court’s turn against creative policymaking can be partially traced to the rise of the major questions doctrine.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2023
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Voters turned against that experiment because crime remained high.
—Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2024
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