twist
Example Sentences
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In an "Oh no it isn't!" twist Lucie Goose, played by Dion Davies, in Mother Goose at the Courtyard in Hereford, said what a dame needed was star quality.
From BBC
There have been plenty of twists and turns in the show's 21st year.
From BBC
"The plot's twist and turns are like a TV drama, but ultimately, Mr Mills has been at the heart of this investigation, which could have had potentially fatal consequences."
From BBC
And in the entry for “cranky” I find a secondary meaning I have never considered: “full of twists and turns,” as in a cranky road.
Brazil's top court struck down a law on Thursday that limits Indigenous people's rights to their ancestral lands, the latest twist in a long legal battle over native territory.
From Barron's
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