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
Although the judge said it was difficult to prove how much “moral damage” Santander’s volte-face caused Orcel, he said the bank’s withdrawal created “considerable frustration, uneasiness, uncertainty and a certain discredit in the banking world.”
From Reuters ● Dec. 22, 2021
They turned tail with screams and fled to a distance, more than one falling in the sudden volte-face.
From The Long Night by Stanley John Weyman
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
A volte face in Treasury yields has improved investors' mood considerably this week as excitement about U.S. disinflation builds despite conflicting signals from around the world.
From Reuters ● Jul. 11, 2023
It was not a volte face of character: that did not change.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
