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

Frederick II. having by a fresh volte-face passed into alliance with Great Britain, Louis XV.’s government accepted an alliance with Maria Theresa in the treaty of the 1st of May 1756.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various