SHOWN UP Synonyms: 95 Similar and Opposite Words

shown up

verb

variants or showed up

past participle of show up

as in appeared

to come into view normally, one doesn't see them, but the actress's wrinkles show up in the close-ups

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as in arrived

to get to a destination the band showed up an hour late

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as in exposed

to reveal the true nature of were shown up for what they really are

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Recent Examples of shown up But the issues that showed up in each of their first three games resurfaced in Starkville, and led to the first loss of the season. — Pj Green september 27, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026 According to Ayer, that exhaustion showed up in the movie, as Pitt couldn’t relax or rely on the typical comforts of a film set. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026 The special teams contributor showed up to the game in some Green Goblin Halloween looking outfit, complete with neon green mask and a purple-ish cape. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 A couple of problems that have been prevalent early in the season for the Broncos showed up again Saturday night. — Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 20 Sep. 2026 Dart’s chemistry with Likely showed up most often in Week 1 on money downs and was a huge reason for the Giants’ 9-of-11 third down efficiency, which was actually 9-for-10 before an end-of-game kneel down. — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026 Unfortunately, nobody saved those rewrites in the system and the goat showed up on set, costing the production around $800. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 So when conversational/generative AI first showed up, leaders hoped standard large language models (LLMs) would immediately reduce these timelines. — Anshima Raj, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026 When the attention waned, Freedom showed up to one of Sophie Cunningham’s games, hoping to mooch off the fame of America’s new athlete face of trans resistance, wearing a shirt insisting that a woman is defined by biology alone. — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

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Verb

Cashmere also appeared in the mid-length Hastings trench for men and a shearling-collared cape for women.

— Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
In March, Scherzinger, Wyatt and Roberts appeared on the 3rd Hour of Today to discuss their comeback.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of appeared

Verb

Melton fled the scene before deputies arrived and was found a short time later at Pamela Way and Jeanette Cove in Alexander, the report says.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Those who arrived in the 1900s had very different cultural, political, and religious backgrounds from the older Texas Jews.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of arrived

Verb

Sometimes only the tips of the reeds and the seed heads were visible, poking above the murky water, and other times the reeds stood fully exposed, with a clear view of crabs clambering around their bases.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Use fast-draining potting mix so the roots are not exposed to soggy soil for long periods of time.

— Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of exposed

Verb

His measurements showed that the material could shift between antipolar and polar states.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
Researchers showed respondents two versions of the same video, one edited by a human, one by AI, without telling them which was which, and asked for a blind preference before revealing anything about how either was made.

— Muhammad Usman Qamar, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of shown

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Ancient footprints and Bronze Age art Experts didn’t believe marks uncovered by a biologist in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park in 2009 were ancient human footprints.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
Place the chicken on a sheet pan and refrigerate uncovered for 24 hours to air-dry and develop a crust.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of uncovered

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While the total economic fallout of an extreme El Nino is hard to calculate, losses from past events have reached trillions of dollars, according to HSBC's Global Investment Research, which warns the numbers could be even bigger this time.

— EDNA TARIGAN, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
In a study of more than 200 projects, the Charles Pankow Foundation and the Design-Build Institute of America found design-build reached the finish roughly twice as fast as the traditional bid approach.

— Kevin Henneman, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026