volte-face
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Mr. Douglas does not write with bitterness about his father’s volte-face, but neither does he overflow with mercy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
Even Dr. William writes with a tone of mild surprise when he speaks of the terrific volte-face which he thinks Sun Yat-sen performed.
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
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
The volte face came after a record-high euro zone inflation print.
From Reuters ● Feb. 4, 2022
It was not a volte face of character: that did not change.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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