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turn

noun as in walk, outing

noun as in scare

verb as in twist a body part

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Willing to turn her hand to anything, she became a familiar face in the 1990s on BBC travel series Holiday, and her CV expanded with gameshows, dating formats and children's programmes.

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New Zealand turned the screw, just like the last time and the time before that and the time before that.

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Griezmann grabbed his second with 10 minutes remaining after Ryan denied Julian Alvarez but the loose ball sat up nicely for the French forward to lunge in and turn over the line.

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Ukraine has in turn stepped up strikes on Russian oil depots and refineries in recent months, seeking to cut off Moscow's vital energy exports and trigger fuel shortages across the country.

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That one defeat came two months prior to the tournament in France and was a major turning point under Borthwick.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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