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Schwenk
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schwenk
German
Etymology
de :deverbal schwenken
de schwenken.
Pronunciation
de De-Schwenk.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m,,s:e
de photography film pan, tilt
swing, swivel, pivot change in direction, often figuratively regarding trends, political position or approach
de 2005 Frank Niess PapyRossa Cologne Schatten auf Hollywood 32 9783894383237 , als im August 1939 bekannt wurde, dass Stalin einen Nichtangriffspakt mit Hitler geschlossen hatte. Die Kommunistische Partei der USA vollzog diesen Schwenk eilfertig mit. when it became known in 1939 that Stalin had agreed to a non-aggresion pact with Hitler. The Communist Party of the USA hastily went along with this pivot.
de Operation Klassik Frederik Hanssen w:Tagesspiegel 2008-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20221026043014/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/operation-klassik-1644232.html Während sein TV-Kollege beim Leichenzerlegen Klassik aus dem CD-Player dröhnen lässt, hat Willich auch nach dem Schwenk zur Medizin in seiner Freizeit stets selber aktiv Musik gemacht While his on-screen colleage has classical music blaring from a CD player while cutting open bodies, Willich has always made music himself in his free time evem after his pivot to medicine
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