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turn

[turn] / tɜrn /
















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Co-written by Brooks with Richard Pryor and others, the film earned three Oscar nominations, including one for Madeline Kahn’s supporting actress turn as the Marlene Dietrich-styled Lili Von Shtupp..

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

While useful, these approximations can limit the accuracy of distance measurements and, in turn, the precision of cosmological studies.

From Science Daily • Jun. 29, 2026

This in turn gives us an idea of the uncertainties and likelihood of any specific forecast temperature rather than relying on one particular outcome.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

She and aides had made it as far as North Carolina when U.S. officials asked her to turn around, and she did.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

I sit up, turn on my bedside light, and dig the journal out of my bag.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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