Dinner conversation in Mexico City inevitably turns to accounts of violent robberies committed on streets, in buses or in taxicabs.
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Dinner conversation in Mexico City inevitably turns to accounts of violent robberies committed on streets, in buses or in taxi-cabs.
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Dinner conversation in Mexico City inevitably turns to accounts of violent robberies committed on streets, in buses or in taxi cabs.
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The company was formed to acquire and turn to account lands, rights or options in British New Guinea and surrounding islands.
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:: : On the use / utilize distinction, the OED says " To make or render useful; to convert to use, turn to account . " I tell people that " utilize " means " make use of something that would otherwise be wasted ", which seems close enough to the OED definition, and also close enough to BluePlatypus's explanation.
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Sir Williamwas then compelled to turn to account the experience which he had acquired as an amateur actor, and after a short starring engagement in the north of England, he went to America, where he made his first public appearance as " John Duck " in the " Jacobite " at the [ Old ] Broadway Theatre, New York, on 27 October 1850.