TURN OF THE CENTURY Definition & Meaning

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turn of the century

The beginning or end of a particular century, as in That idiom dates from the turn of the century, that is to say, about 1900. This expression was first recorded in 1926.

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Having converted nine straight 54-hole leads into trophies, Scheffler is the first to win consecutive Memorial titles since Woods won three in a row at the turn of the century.

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In the rough and tumble world of turn of the century politics, he was given the nickname "Shagger".

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Since the turn of the century, tax cuts are responsible for 57% of the increase in the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio, a measure economists rely upon to see if our debt burden is becoming unmanageable.

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So here in Denmark we had the last of these democracy audits around the turn of the century, just before the. advent of social media.

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This remained the case for decades but started rising from the turn of the century, with a rapid increase from the 1970s.

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