TURNED UP Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

turned up

verb

past tense of turn up

as in appeared

to come into view my missing car keys turned up just in time

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Relevance

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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 That was when the team really turned up the defensive intensity on Thursday, dialing up a variety of coverages on Gilgeous-Alexander that kept the Thunder from going on any runs with Wemby out. —

William Guillory, New York Times, 29 May 2026 Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. —

Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 May 2026 The search turned up a gun hidden under the bushes along the fence line and an additional bullet. —

Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026 In a probing piece for The New Yorker, journalist Jessica Winter took a hard look at Burden’s financial profile—and incidentally turned up some holes in the narrative that has defined her divorce as tragic for chiefly financial reasons. —

Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026 That year, Quentin Tarantino turned up to the Palm Dog awards to collect the prize himself. —

Alex Ritman, Variety, 22 May 2026 Cancer risk Research has not turned up convincing evidence that using a laptop directly on your lap could cause cancer. —

Matt Fuchs, Time, 20 May 2026 Liquefied natural gas play Cheniere Energy also turned up on the list of consistent dividend growers. —

Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 19 May 2026 Testing companies have turned up high levels of arsenic, asbestos and more rare heavy metals inside Altadena properties. —

Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 15 May 2026

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As the President appeared in front of his hometown crowd, he was met with a sea of boos from thousands of basketball fans.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 June 2026
Kim appeared to test that potential tolerance in the lead-up to Xi’s arrival, inspecting a missile manufacturer over the weekend and a new plant that manufactures weapons-grade nuclear material days earlier.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 9 June 2026