turned up

verb

past tense of turn up
1
as in appeared
to come into view my missing car keys turned up just in time

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2
as in arrived
to get to a destination when do you think our guests will turn up?

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3
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 Some interest rate-sensitive stocks, including the utilities and Club name Home Depot , have turned up, as absurd as that is. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026 The 53-year-old supermodel turned up the temperature in a new Instagram photo featuring her lounging poolside, wearing nothing but a small pair of black bikini bottoms. — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 The authors also flagged 15 of the 91 markups as possibly AI-assisted despite the ban, and the flags turned up about as often among control lawyers. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026 Upwards of 100 people turned up, including members of distant sister tribes. — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026 Stone turned up at the Mugler show last weekend dressed like the late Manfred Thierry Mugler, working with the house on the stunt and with the blessing of Mugler’s partner. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 9 Oct. 2026 Mock skeletons are everywhere in the weeks leading up to Halloween, but a real one turned up as someone was mowing grass in eastern North Carolina, police say. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 4 Oct. 2026 He was arrested the next day, when a search of the same hotel room reportedly turned up about 60 grams of fentanyl, 25 grams of crack cocaine and seven grams of powder cocaine, federal officials said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026 Because this Opus Jazz belongs to Miami, Posen also turned up the temperature on the palette. — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned up
  1. appeared
  2. arrived
  3. found
  4. unfolded
  5. came
  6. learned
  7. showed
  8. got in
Verb
  • But Israeli commentators also professed shock, if not surprise, Sunday at how closely aligned the journalist and spin doctor appeared to be.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Huppert, who has appeared in three Hong films, was elected this year as the first female president of the Cinémathèque Française.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of appeared
Verb
  • Officers arrived and found Gonzalez in handcuffs with a gunshot wound to his midsection, the department said in a statement last week.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The team arrived shortly after sunset, so fieldwork was postponed until morning.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of arrived
Verb
  • Fabscrap was founded in 2016 by New York City Department of Sanitation employee Jessica Schreiber.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
  • King Promise founded Rent Paid to fundraise for local community charities, including the Nungua Orphanage, which provides support to those under 16 in the area.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of found
Verb
  • In the narrative to has unfolded from authorities and passenger accounts, Machchhar had the presence of mind to open the locked door of the cockpit after he was stabbed.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • In the debut episode, Robach and Holmes detailed how the scandal unfolded and insisted they’d been quietly separated from their spouses before their love affair began.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of unfolded
Verb
  • 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
  • All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
Definition of came
Verb
  • Investigators learned that Hellewell had offered to walk home with one of her male friends, who’d become overly intoxicated.
    — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Church and law enforcement officials first learned of the allegations in 2018, and the Vatican in 2021 forced Saunders to retire at age 71, four years early.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of learned
Verb
  • Appetite for top office space remains strong across the capital, while CWG’s latest earnings showed that availability in Central London fell 20% year on year as supply in Docklands stayed broadly steady.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Property records showed that the LA Building and Safety Department cited the homeowner in 2014 for violations, including garbage on the property, excessive vegetation, open storage, and no driveway access.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of showed
Verb
  • After consumers responded favorably to this more authentic casting, Jerome Bettis and Michael Strahan got in the soup-shilling game with their respective moms.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Details are scant as to what kind of access and information the agent got in the Australian breach.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of got in

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