volte face

Example Sentences

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Secondly, the executor of your father’s estate was either asleep on the job and/or had an inexplicable volte-face.

From MarketWatch

It was a volte-face after his many previous posts on social media that the US had "no interest in Syria".

From BBC

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

The volte-face leaves our protagonist with a very different legacy.

From New York Times

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