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Recent Examples of switcheroo
The twice-yearly switcheroo is irritating enough to lawmakers of all political stripes that the US Senate passed legislation in March 2022 to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
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Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
Comcast’s over-the-air flagship will air around 50 regular-season games on Thursdays and post-NFL Sundays, a platform switcheroo that automatically expands the league’s reach by some 15.5 million households.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Neither one of them should be calling it now with all the uncertainty over the actual Dodgers playoff rotation, but this personality switcheroo is really throwing me off.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
However, these doubts come bubbling back to the surface when the town learns of the administrative switcheroo.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
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Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
Comcast’s over-the-air flagship will air around 50 regular-season games on Thursdays and post-NFL Sundays, a platform switcheroo that automatically expands the league’s reach by some 15.5 million households.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Neither one of them should be calling it now with all the uncertainty over the actual Dodgers playoff rotation, but this personality switcheroo is really throwing me off.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
However, these doubts come bubbling back to the surface when the town learns of the administrative switcheroo.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for switcheroo
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But that longstanding status quo has now been shaken — a turnabout for Hezbollah that has opened a new political chapter in Lebanon.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Pakistan’s frustrations with the Taliban represent a sharp turnabout.—
Zia ur-Rehman,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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Trump, who previously supported a TikTok ban, later flip-flopped on the matter.—
Salvador Rodriguez,
CNBC,
18 Jan. 2025
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But others have pointed to the timing of his flip-flop coming after Trump met with a billionaire hedge fund manager whose trading group owns a major stake in ByteDance, TikTok's parent company.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
17 Jan. 2025
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Michael Soloman, one of Tennessee's leading sellers of legal cannabis, believes the state is engaging in regulatory bait and switch.—
Frank Gluck,
The Tennessean,
12 Feb. 2024
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But Pippa soon swings in with a big confession: These muffins were actually baked to convince Ravi to spill the deets about his dead brother. Ravi, peeved that Pip pulled a bait and switch, tells her to leave him alone.—
Fletcher Peters,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2024
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The president-elect's support for the widely popular app is an about-face from his first term in office.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2025
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Nothing captured this flexibility more than Reagan’s about-face from brinkmanship to détente with Gorbachev.—
Niall Ferguson,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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Gabbard has recently executed a sharp U-turn on a controversial law: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
13 Jan. 2025
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Only right turns are possible, and eastward travelers are forced to head west and make a potentially risky U-turn on busy Colbern Road or turn around in another parking lot.—
Janice Phelan,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2025
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Offensive coordinator Chip Kelly believes the strong bond in the locker room played a role in the late-season turnaround.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Lockport 20-3 (4) Storybook turnaround season even draws CBS Chicago to visit Porters for a segment. 4.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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Read More: How Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Pushed Through Asia’s First Cannabis Legalization Cannabis advocacy groups and businesses have voiced their opposition to the policy volte-face, staging rallies and threatening a legal challenge against the premier.—
Pathom Sangwongwanich / Bloomberg,
TIME,
27 June 2024
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The policy volte-face is another blow to Thailand’s nascent cannabis industry after decriminalization was pitched as a way to boost agricultural income and wellness tourism.—
TIME,
TIME,
10 May 2024
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For a bullish set-up, traders look for RSI to rise back above the 30 level, signaling a reversal.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
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His promotion of Tiktok is a reversal from 2020, when Trump attempted to ban the platform.—
Danielle Kurtzleben,
NPR,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Switcheroo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/switcheroo. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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