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Example sentences for: about-face
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Such objections first arose in 1994, when the Clinton administration made a sudden about-face, declaring it would "delink" Chinese trade policy from human rights.
Now, given that the Times ran hard and often with the congressional report and the line it took, does this piece represent some sort of about-face?
Then they do a bizarre about-face and deliver a paean to the bliss of domesticity.
Wall Street rejoiced at Brazil's perceived courage--the real decision being an abrupt about-face by Brazil's central bank--and the Dow jumped 219 points.
The newly svelte lady surely had in mind an about-face, not a pirouette, and was lithely (as she might say) unaware that her expanded metaphor had canceled the sense of her loss (a moroxish pun?)