HOUSEKEPT Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

housekept

verb

past tense of housekeep

as in housecleaned

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turned out

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Large press group turned out to cover my trip to Turmusayya today to meet Americans living there.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
Johnson doesn’t look like Monroe — and that turned out to be the point.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

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