pivot
Example Sentences
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The vice president pretended to pivot from “a longer discussion” of the subject, but then he immediately started pontificating about the culture’s “desire” to classify “celestial beings who fly around “as aliens.”
From Salon
The unemployment rate will be a key pivot for the European Central Bank as it calibrates its policy response in the coming months, Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said in a note.
The group under its new chief executive officer, Diana Layfield, now intends to double down on its profitable U.K. business and pivot into Europe.
But the region’s abundance of cheap energy has also powered a determined pivot by Gulf states into a range of non-oil industries and services that are now also drawing Iran’s fire.
It can take years to pivot a factory and supply chain from one type of vehicle to another.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
