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The phrase "astonishing turn" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a surprising or unexpected change in a situation or event.
Example: "The story took an astonishing turn when the protagonist discovered the truth about their past."
Alternatives: "remarkable shift" or "surprising twist".
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I explored this astonishing turn of events in my London Evening Standard column yesterday.
Recommended by: Cynic1975 and Splutterer Who could forget former footballer David Icke's astonishing turn on Wogan in 1991.
It was the latest astonishing turn in a story that has gripped South Africa, unleashing a torrent of rage over deepening inequality, poverty and unemployment.
Never say never, of course – but it would require an astonishing turn of events for GlenTinto to come into being in next half-decade or so.
Now, though, they concede that Ms. Sumasar was right — an astonishing turn of events that has transformed her case into one of the most bizarre in the city's recent history.
It is an astonishing turn in the circumstances of a polarizing law that the House GOP voted more than 60 times over nearly a decade to scrap and almost scuttled in 2017 — and one that Trump remains intent on destroying.
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In Basra too, after an astonishing turn-round, the Iraqi army seems to have bested the Sadrists.Yet the Sadrists still have a wide base of support, especially among the poor.
"Homicide" then takes two astonishing turns that are as daring and effective as anything you're likely to see on television.
Micheaux develops a comprehensive view of black American life with a narrative audacity and jolting devices including flashbacks and sidelong interpolations that open the plot to astonishing turns of a vast historical scope.
Micheaux develops a comprehensive view of black American life with a narrative audacity and jolting devices — including flashbacks and sidelong interpolations — that open the plot to astonishing turns of a vast historical scope.
Then there's the Nano's astonishing turning circle, possibly the tightest on any car.
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