sharp turn
Example Sentences
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The escalating U.S. involvement in Nigeria’s war against Boko Haram and a breakaway militant group, Islamic State in West Africa Province, follows a sharp turn in rhetoric from the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
No Sri Lankan batter managed to convert a start into a half-century on a surface that offered sharp turn.
From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026
Traders may also be factoring in the likelihood that the Fed will stop cutting rates for the time being after December, unless the economy takes a sharp turn.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025
Those news conferences have given rise to the nickname 'Tommy Tactics' - a moniker that highlights a sharp turn from Southgate, often criticised for his lack of tactical acumen.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025
But as Galton’s hypothesis about “ancestral inheritance” had been dismantled, piece by piece, by Bateson and de Vries, Galton had taken a sharp turn from a descriptive impulse to a prescriptive one.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
