What does turning away mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodgingnoun

    deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

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  1. Turning Away

    Turning Away is a song written by Tim Krekel, and recorded by American country music artist Crystal Gayle. It was released in June 1984 as the third single from the album Cage the Songbird. "Turning Away" was Crystal Gayles fourteenth number one single on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart. Two years later Welsh rockabilly singer Shakin' Stevens had a top 15 pop hit with the song in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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  1. turning away

    Turning away refers to the action of changing direction, moving from, or avoiding someone or something, either physically or emotionally. This can involve rejecting, ignoring, or ceasing to show interest or support. It can also involve a change of attitude, belief, or focus.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of turning away in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of turning away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of turning away in a Sentence

  1. Terry Kupers:

    Many state department of corrections are looking at the immense damage long-term solitary causes in the prisoners, and the expense of maintaining supermax units, and they are turning away from solitary as a management strategy.

  2. Marcus Aurelius:

    People find pleasure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

  3. Jay Chen:

    I mean, that's what they fled to escape. And Republican Party is embracing Republican Party and only haltingly turning away from Republican Party when they get called out, i think this will last through November because we're dealing with a situation where there are no good options for Russia, and if Russia were to succeed, they'd only succeed through more carnage, more violence.

  4. Philip Racusin:

    This allows small oil and gas operators to get funds when large institutional investors are turning away from the industry.

  5. Clemens Binninger:

    Gerhard Schindler said. But German secret service officials have observed a disturbing new trend that combines the two threats. Radicals already in Germany are increasingly trying to penetrate the shelters that hold desperate and increasingly volatile refugees who made it to Germany. They have to be careful, because indigenous Islamists and Salafists could try to take advantage of the desperation of the refugees and to achieve their fanatical ideas, said Clemens Binninger, a member of Parliament. Much of the fear has been driven by the fact that ISIS has clearly stated its plan to send jihadists to Western Europe amid the refugee wave. Fighters with valid documents from European Union countries can enter and exit without being detected, and ISIS has reportedly seized hundreds of Syrian blank passports. As a result, European jihadists could be returning amid the wave, and fighters from Syria and Iraq could be sneaking into Western Europe under humanitarian cover, where they can slip into society using doctored documents. Assassins of Paris, of Brussels and the train between Paris and Amsterdam were either radicalized European Muslims or European jihadists, returned from the battlefields, they're making contact with the network of political Salafists, which have been previously recruited to ISIS. Turkey, a European Union member which has taken in an estimated 2 million refugees from Syria, blasted European nations for turning away refugees and making the continent a.

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