as in to repel
to drive back
using tree branches, the campers were able to turn away the charging fox, which was apparently rabid
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Recent Examples of turn away
An air traffic controller had to repeatedly warn a Spirit Airlines flight Tuesday to turn away from Air Force One's path as both traversed over New York, according to LiveATC audio.
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Jay Blackman, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
Pictures showed mourners overflowing the venue, with organizers forced to turn away some people, a source told Fox News Digital.
—Sophia Compton , Andrea Margolis , Olivia Palombo, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
More recently, the music industry has turned away from reality TV singing competitions, and even American Idol hasn’t produced a true star in quite some time.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Several lawmakers lamented that the country has turned away from God and religion.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 13 Sep. 2025
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Jay Blackman, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
Pictures showed mourners overflowing the venue, with organizers forced to turn away some people, a source told Fox News Digital.
—Sophia Compton , Andrea Margolis , Olivia Palombo, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
More recently, the music industry has turned away from reality TV singing competitions, and even American Idol hasn’t produced a true star in quite some time.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Several lawmakers lamented that the country has turned away from God and religion.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turn away
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This creates a protective barrier that repels fingerprints and gives your appliances a sparkling finish.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Sep. 2025
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And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies?—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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Later in the season, as more northern waters cool off and the main hurricane development region stays toasty, the instability dial could be turned back up.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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Clayton Kershaw has turned back the clock.—
The Athletic MLB Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Cook, who remains at the Federal Reserve, has sued the president to resist her dismissal.—
Chris Prentice,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Other times, long rates resist or even rise, flattening the curve and blunting the Fed’s impact.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Like Einstein, Brassard feels repulsed by the way the particles in the Bell experiment seem to have firsthand awareness of each other despite being separated by, in principle, light-years of space.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Aug. 2025
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This is something that finally repulses Ivor, and that Orla also grapples with.—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
27 July 2025
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On this play, Tegra Tshabola got beat off the ball, forcing Donaldson to take a different hole before running into a defender who center Carson Hinzman was on until the hole shifted.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AP What To Know Obama beat off stiff competition from the likes of David Attenborough and Tom Hanks to win the Outstanding Narrator prize for his narration of the five-part Netflix series Our Oceans, which examines marine life across the world's oceans.—
Daniel Orton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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This frontloading helped support China's exports — and stave off a Christmas crunch.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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Chan, her mother and little brother tried to stave off hunger in rural China for four years, with her brother eventually dying from an epidemic that swept through their village.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Turn away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turn%20away. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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