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as in to succeed
to turn out as planned or desired
the investment scheme didn't quite pan out
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Recent Examples of pan out
Neither of those predictions have panned out well.
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Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
The business partners considered spaces in Aurora, but nothing ultimately panned out.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Earlier forecasts of high temperatures dropping into the 80s in the Dallas area weren't panning out, the weather service there said.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Too many of Gutekunst’s offensive line picks haven’t panned out, forcing him to give up valuable draft capital to find quality depth.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
The business partners considered spaces in Aurora, but nothing ultimately panned out.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Earlier forecasts of high temperatures dropping into the 80s in the Dallas area weren't panning out, the weather service there said.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Too many of Gutekunst’s offensive line picks haven’t panned out, forcing him to give up valuable draft capital to find quality depth.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pan out
Verb
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Hawaiian Airlines, meanwhile, proved why it's historically dominated the on-time performance category.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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In the end, the Viking landers found no creatures, and biological experiments proved inconclusive.—
David W. Brown,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Bryan Seabury, who succeeded McNamara as head of drama in 2016, continues to lead the studio’s drama team; Kate Adler who ran comedy at the time, continues to do so.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
16 Sep. 2025
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Now, a team of international astronomers has succeeded in deciphering the gravitational wave signal, GW190412, to determine more about the collision and the resulting event that sent an infant black hole hurtling through space.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Lucky went 1,500 days in the shelter without being adopted, then everything changed.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Before all that happened, though, there was the eight-course dinner, which went totally fine as predicted.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Layer it over a knit, or simply throw on and go over a T-shirt.—
Andrea Zendejas,
Vogue,
16 Sep. 2025
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Further illustrating this gap, Virginia pastor Howard John-Wesley went over the weekend with a sermon that condemned Kirk's murder but warned against casting Kirk as an American hero.—
Liam Adams,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Women in brightly colored dresses danced in shoes that loudly clicked across the floor.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Sep. 2025
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Then click Manage Subscriptions.—
Barry Collins,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Cristobal couldn’t be happier with how things have worked out so far.—
Manny Navarro,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
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Which faction would win such a battle will never be known, however, because a year after the bill was signed and after lengthy negotiations, a compromise was worked out and quickly enacted.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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