Usually means: Cyclical patterns in historical events.
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  1. turnings: Merriam-Webster
  2. turnings: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. turnings: Collins English Dictionary
  4. turnings: Vocabulary.com
  5. Turnings, turnings: Wordnik
  6. turnings: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. turnings: Wiktionary
  8. turnings: Dictionary.com
  9. Turnings: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. turnings: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (turning)

noun:  (UK, Ireland) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
noun:  (field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
noun:  The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
noun:  The act of turning (rotating or twisting).
noun:  One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that makes up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
noun:  (plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
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