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
Are these the only countries in the world whose people and whose manners have turned volte-face within less than half a century?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various
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
Some people were enraged by Koum’s volte face in particular, accusing him of rank hypocrisy.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2018
It was not a volte face of character: that did not change.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
