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turn the tide

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. turn the tables, turn the tideverb

    cause a complete reversal of the circumstances

    "The tables are turned now that the Republicans are in power!"

Wiktionary

  1. turn the tideverb

    To make a change, or reversal of general opinion.

Wikipedia

  1. Turn the Tide

    Turn the Tide is a song written by Regi Penxten and recorded Belgian vocal trance and europop group Sylver. The song was produced in Belgium from Little Major Productions. In Belgium, the song was released under the name Liquid feat. Silvy. The song is chapter of the Album Chances and in French as Je ne sais pas of the Album Little Things as a ghost track to the end of the album.

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  1. turn the tide

    "Turn the tide" is an idiom which means to reverse a situation and gain an advantage from a position of disadvantage. It typically refers to a significant and positive change or recovery after a period of difficulty or decline.

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  1. Turn the Tide

    Turn the Tide is the second album from country music group Baillie & the Boys. It was a #30 Country Album on Billboard charts. Its Hot Country Singles hits were, chronologically, "Long Shot" at #5, "She Deserves You" at #8, " Heart of Stone" at #4, and "I Can't Turn the Tide" at #9. "Safe in the Arms of Love" was later recorded by Michelle Wright in 1994 and Martina McBride in 1995, both of whom released it as a single.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of turn the tide in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of turn the tide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of turn the tide in a Sentence

  1. Mark Levin:

    This worldview and these principles compel me to promote conservative ideas at Stanford, and beyond, i’m driven by a fundamental sense of urgency over the fact that Americans are slowly losing their liberty, and I believe that liberty is being valued less and less. I want to turn the tide, and college campuses are crucial to doing so.

  2. Mohamad Bazzi:

    When the Syrian war first started, Erdogan's government wanted the downfall of the Assad regime, and without Western military intervention, it thought that these foreign fighters would turn the tide, now that strategy is backfiring as the Islamic State becomes more emboldened.

  3. Philip Hammond:

    This isn't going to be done in three months or six months. It's going to take a year, two years to push ISIL (IS) back out of Iraq but we are doing the things that need to be done in order to turn the tide.

  4. Keir Giles:

    It's going to be painful to deliberate, unless it becomes possible for Western aid, both military and humanitarian, to be absorbed in Ukraine at sufficient rates that they can genuinely turn the tide against the Russian advancement, if it's a question of who can pour in the greater resources and take the greater pain in order to prevail, Russia has a track record for inflicting substantial economic damage on itself and suffering on its own population, in order to prosecute wars.

  5. Cleveland Browns:

    For the past five seasons, JC has been a mainstay and iron man at center for us, he came to our organization at a time of instability and was one of the key veterans that helped turn the tide over the past several years.


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