volte
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Beyond this, the reasons for the timing of the government's volte face are speculative.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025
She is deeply caring of her mother but retains a wariness around her—hints of buried wounds—that helps explain her apparent volte face.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
Critics and supporters alike referred to Mitterrand's volte face as "supply-side Socialism" - a leader of the left adopting the pro-business policies to spur economic growth associated at the time with conservative U.S.
From Reuters • Jan. 3, 2014
Also speaking on the Today Programme, Lord Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader who also served as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, expressed shame at Britain’s volte face.
From Time • Aug. 31, 2013
It was not a volte face of character: that did not change.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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