Turning-away

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Noun
  1. 1
    A deliberate rejection and movement or development in a different direction.

    "One of this century’s stranger trends has been a turning-away from the chains – and a deliberate revival of the props and symbols of yesterday’s vanished high street."

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"One of this century’s stranger trends has been a turning-away from the chains – and a deliberate revival of the props and symbols of yesterday’s vanished high street."

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