about-facing

verb

Definition of about-facingnext
present participle of about-face
1
as in reverting

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2
as in pivoting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for about-facing
  1. pivoting
  2. sweeping
  3. bowing
  4. bending
  5. curving
  6. curling
  7. circling
Verb
  • Springfield’s housing authority executive director, Michelle Lee-Hall, told The New York Times housing affordability problems have been aggravated by landlords pivoting to migrants willing to pay higher rent.
    Conor Murray, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Executives can learn how small, multi-functional teams can achieve remarkable results with limited resources and gain insights into selling products, pivoting strategies and adapting to new business models.
    Greg Ombach, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of pivoting
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  • The following weekly digest is written and compiled by the Trans Formations Project, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to tracking and educating about the anti-trans legislative crisis currently sweeping the United States.
    Trans Formations Project, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In addition to these two AL Central teams, the Kansas City Royals also advanced on Wednesday, sweeping the Baltimore Orioles.
    FTW Staff, For The Win, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of sweeping
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  • Dust and debris can settle inside and damage items, or they can be crushed by bowing boxes stacked on one another.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Dust and debris can settle inside and damage items, or they can be crushed by bowing boxes stacked on one another.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2024
Definition of bowing
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  • Last year, the department paid a nearly $1-million settlement to a former police captain who alleged that he was fired after revealing that officers were routinely bending the corners of their badges to commemorate when an officer killed a civilian.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Throughout her genre-bending career, the artist Lorna Simpson has always made marginalization a source of power.
    Dean Baquet, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of bending
Verb
  • The flower’s strong, curving stem makes the work not so much forceful as definitive.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But by using the holographic dictionary to look at the particles from their other perspective, as a gently curving space-time, physicists can calculate the outcome using Einstein’s gravity equations and then translate the answer back to get a sense of how the nuclei would smash together.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of curving
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  • Messi’s two goals – the first, a close-range finish, and the second, a sensational curling free-kick – at the end of the first half helped Inter Miami best the Crew to win the trophy, which is given to the team with the best overall regular season record.
    Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • It’s designed to give your lashes double the curling effect of other brands, partly resulting from the unique ultra-curved lash-styling brush.
    Clint Davis, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of curling
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  • Several possible candidates are already circling.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Questions raised over whether Israeli forces entered An Associated Press reporter saw Israeli troops operating near the border in armored trucks, with helicopters circling overhead, but could not confirm ground forces had crossed into Lebanon.
    AAMER MADHANI, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of circling
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