change one's mind

Definition

To decide differently than one had decided before.

Example Sentences

• "She started up the stairs, changed her mind, and turned to go back down."
• "So don’t necessarily assume that something has changed if I appear to have changed my mind, sometimes my mind is all that’s changed."
• "Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds."

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