COME OUT Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

come out

verb

Definition of come out

as in to prove

to come to be in the end everything came out OK

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Relevance

as in to appear

to come into view come out, come out wherever you are!

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as in to spread

to become known when the truth came out about the state of the company's finances, several top executives lost their jobs

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Recent Examples of come out Some of Jones’ best throws came out quick, on third-down slants, to keep drives alive. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026 The fans in Auburn, Alabama, came out, leaning from ramps and peeking from tents to catch a glimpse of their new administrations, each in their first SEC duel of the year. — Noah White, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2026 The medical staff came out again — along with the entire Packers sideline — and Bako-Bewele was helped onto a cart. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026 And in the chair came out and talked about how strong the employment was. — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for come out

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Verb

Conclave proved an audience hit as well as an award darling, generating over $125 million at the global box office on a $20 million budget.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2026
In one of the few wins for the defense, jurors found the state didn’t prove that Facebook made false claims about removing harmful content, including misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.

— Mikella Schuettler, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of prove

Verb

The Libra Sun opposes Neptune across your home and career zones, creating tension between appearing capable and actually feeling grounded.

— Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2026
Greg Cunningham, a former Albuquerque police officer, appeared in an ad produced with the National Republican Congressional Committee that featured Raymond De La Cruz.

— Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of appear

Verb

Mayor Mamdani’s aides violated city rules and state law in using the disappearing Signal app to send messages to internet influencers to help them to spread word of the mayor’s achievements.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026
Extracting it economically remains difficult because uranium atoms are spread across vast volumes of water.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of spread

Verb

Journalists identified the source of the album as Beck’s falling out with Leigh, and critics revered the LP as proof Beck had grown up as a songwriter, abandoning the old doggerel.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
Bottom line One of my favorite ways to invest is finding a great brand that has fallen out of favor, but where new management is making the right moves.

— Stephanie Link, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of fall out

Verb

Post-reaction analysis using scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, or SEM/EDX, also showed morphological and compositional changes in the catalyst samples.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
In a new paper published in Royal Society Open Science, mathematician Alain Goriely shows that even though the stylobate really is curved, the illusion doesn’t hold up.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of show

Verb

Once clothes are spread out with enough room for air to circulate, a fan can keep air moving and a dehumidifier can be useful in high-humidity homes.

— Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 26 Sep. 2026
Some raised the possibility that this was an act of racial violence, reacting to images circulating online of Wells and a crew of white friends.

— Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of circulate

Verb

The story unfolds across London and India, centering on Rohan, an ambitious Hindi teacher caught between family expectations and his own wants.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026
The truths, the realignments are cascading, unfolding as seekers everywhere are finding a portal to the cosmic, the spiritual, and even the divine — all through drugs.

— Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of unfold

Verb

The Rutgers game could get out of hand fast, as the team needs to win the game by seven touchdowns and extra points in order to cover the spread.

— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
But the ritual has increasingly gotten out of hand, culminating with someone hurling a chair into the crowd during the group’s performance last week in Charlotte, North Carolina, and reportedly sending one fan to the hospital.

— Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026

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