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as in appeared
to come into view
my missing car keys turned up just in time
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as in arrived
to get to a destination
when do you think our guests will turn up?
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as in found
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
it took days to turn up the original documents
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Recent Examples of turned up
Accompanied by a bevy of dancers dressed in camo shorts and white T-shirts and her DJ, their commander of the night turned up the heat with her performance, and while initially wearing a short camo jacket.
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Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
Cotton turned up in a multitude of runway shows throughout New York Fashion Week.
—Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
The dude has the energy turned up to 11 and is a total chatterbox.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
None of these inspections turned up anything untoward.
—Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Subsequent records requests by Sportico and other media outlets, for new or amended contracts between UCLA and Elevate, turned up no records.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Barnes turned up the heat on Archbishop Williams (4-3) as well with her powerful outside hitting.
—Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Seaton in southern England is located over 364 miles away from Whitehaven in northern England, where Harrod turned up three days later.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Then, on a sleepy Saturday afternoon, the same man turned up unannounced at our family home in Ireland.
—Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
Cotton turned up in a multitude of runway shows throughout New York Fashion Week.
—Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
The dude has the energy turned up to 11 and is a total chatterbox.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
None of these inspections turned up anything untoward.
—Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Subsequent records requests by Sportico and other media outlets, for new or amended contracts between UCLA and Elevate, turned up no records.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Barnes turned up the heat on Archbishop Williams (4-3) as well with her powerful outside hitting.
—Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Seaton in southern England is located over 364 miles away from Whitehaven in northern England, where Harrod turned up three days later.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Then, on a sleepy Saturday afternoon, the same man turned up unannounced at our family home in Ireland.
—Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned up
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Jennings entered the game injured and also appeared to have suffered another injury during Sunday's loss.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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Investigators believe the suspect also deliberately set fire to the church, which appeared engulfed in flames in photos and videos shared on social media.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
29 Sep. 2025
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Moments later, police arrived on the scene and shot the man, who died and was later identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, a 40-year-old from the nearby city of Burton.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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The individual was discovered inside one of the main landing gear compartments while the maintenance crew was working on the aircraft, which had arrived from Europe, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said in a news release.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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Denver has already landed its first founding partner, CommonSpirit Health, which also secured naming rights for the club’s performance center.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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This year the honor roll student founded The Curious Kid Collective, a community initiative that promotes literacy and creative exploration for children through storytelling and art, and was a recipient of the Fashion Scholarship Fund’s Virgil Abloh Post-Modern scholarship.—
Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
23 Sep. 2025
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But Elsen, who got married near Iowa City, Iowa, earlier this month, never could have planned for how that special moment actually unfolded.—
Jesse Kirsch,
NBC news,
25 Sep. 2025
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The Civil War unfolded in battlefields, but also wrought the Draft Riots in New York City, during which dozens of Black residents were murdered, property was destroyed, and the city terrified.—
Annie Polland,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
7 Aug. 2025
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But upon the couples’ return from their honeymoon, Jones learned her new husband had been diagnosed with cancer.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Founded in 2000 by Doug McCraw and Lutz Hofbauer as an arts nonprofit, FAT Village was a unique, innovative arts hub right next to the train tracks where artists showed their work, students learned figure drawing, and patrons sipped cappuccinos while surrounded by vintage books.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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Before the outbreak this year, state records showed that Arizona did not have more than 46 measles cases in a year since 1991, according to the newspaper.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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As of Thursday morning, open-source maritime tracking websites showed the Pushpa sailing southwest through the North Sea toward the English Channel, with its eventual destination listed as Vadinar in India.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
25 Sep. 2025
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Robert Gets Some Adorable Practice with His Niece Ahead of week two's live show, the wildlife conservationist got in some extra prep time with help from his sister Bindi's 4-year-old daughter, Grace.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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Ed got in there and did the revving.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Turned up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20up. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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