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It’s a question the camera seems to foist in turn upon the viewer, most emphatically when it shows us Charlie, in a miserable fury, devouring and vomiting up an entire pizza.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2022

Whole tracts of the UK’s comprehensive pandemic strategy turn upon any pandemic being flu – a different type of disease to a coronavirus.

From The Guardian May 21, 2020

Lilly Qin, an accountant by training, coaxed her parents, both chefs, out of semiretirement to give their vast experience in Sichuan cooking one more turn upon the stage.

From Washington Post Jun. 18, 2019

As the days go by, they turn upon one another with accusatory hysteria.

From New York Times Jul. 29, 2016

Each time they followed his example, he retreated with concern and racked his brain for some new stratagem that would enable him to turn upon them scornfully again.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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