volte-face
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What can I say about this complete volte-face?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
Secondly, the executor of your father’s estate was either asleep on the job and/or had an inexplicable volte-face.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
But in what appears to be a volte-face, Burke’s “Ignorance: A Global History” explores the myriad ways in which “not-knowing” affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
The volte-face leaves our protagonist with a very different legacy.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
The result has been that complete volte-face of the whole scientific world which must seem so surprising to the present generation.
From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell
Although the headlines were dominated by Saylor’s apparent volte face, the bulk of Saylor’s commentary was as bullish as investors have come to expect.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Beyond this, the reasons for the timing of the government's volte face are speculative.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
She is deeply caring of her mother but retains a wariness around her—hints of buried wounds—that helps explain her apparent volte face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
We know McClaren craves a couple of older, experienced players but acquiring them would involve Mike Ashley, the owner, performing a volte face on recruitment policy.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2015
It was not a volte face of character: that did not change.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
