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Recent Examples of U-turn Gabbard has recently executed a sharp U-turn on a controversial law: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Niall Stanage, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025 Only right turns are possible, and eastward travelers are forced to head west and make a potentially risky U-turn on busy Colbern Road or turn around in another parking lot. Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025 Mark Zuckerberg announcing a complete U-turn on all woke censorship & cancel culture bulls***.. good for you Mark Zuckerberg and good for Elon Musk who has led the charge on free speech. Michael D. Carroll and Theo Burman, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025 Syria’s new leaders are trying to distance their country from both these actors; days after Assad’s ouster, an oil tanker full of Iranian crude made a U-turn away from Syria, suggesting that Tehran might stop backing the country’s energy sector. Delaney Simon, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for U-turn 

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“U-turn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/U-turn. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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