Make a living
Turn and make a living are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Turn" instead a verb phrase "Make a living".
Turn
Turn verb - To move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis.
Make a living and turn are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Make a living" instead a verb "Turn".
Both terms in one sentence
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It is parodying TV psychics who in their turn are based on real life "psychics" who make a living of it, including being hired by the police.
Source: Series / Psych -
To feed himself and his new family, Verne had to turn to stock exchange, where he had to make a living as a stock broker until he had a big break with the Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Source: Starving Artist - He tries to make a living as a, well, rainmaker, but because of the countless frauds who have gone before him, nobody will pay him up front, and most of the time they turn out to be unwilling or unable to pay him afterwards - and as he puts it, he can't hardly pull the rain back outta the ground.
Source: Rainmaking
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