turned up

past tense of turn up

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of turned up After a month, the ketogenic group showed clear metabolic improvements; the more striking psychiatric and cognitive gains turned up at four months—by which point the diet had been offered to everyone, eliminating the control-group comparison. — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 In August, supervisors in Pinal County, Arizona, voted down a large data center campus after so many residents turned up to object that the county opened five overflow rooms across three buildings. — Adhum Carter Wolde-Lule, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 Celebrities all turned up for the event in style tonight—bringing their best statement looks to the occasion. — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026 In London, hundreds of people turned up in the financial district for a Wednesday morning dance-off before work, as appetite grows worldwide for daytime raves. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026 The process has already turned up new ingredients, including new non-calorie sweeteners and non-sodium umami enhancers, which the company launched for commercial sampling this year. — Joe Mullich, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 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 Upwards of 100 people turned up, including members of distant sister tribes. — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned up
Verb
  • In September, every ward in Sylhet's 100-bed Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital, which is treating measles, appeared overwhelmed.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The migration of working-class and Hispanic voters toward Trump in 2024, which now appeared to be swinging back to the Democrats in the midterms, suggested an underlying instability.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Bakkila skipped the brand’s optional white glove delivery, and her king-size mattress arrived in two heavy boxes with the latex layers packaged separately inside a zippered cover for assembly at home.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Then-Prime Minister Tony Blair had just arrived in Washington for talks with President Bill Clinton.
    — STEVE HENDRIX THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Randsburg, which was once a booming California Gold Rush town founded in 1895, has seen most of its residents leave over the years.
    — Joy Benedict, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • At the time, Truell hadn’t founded a company; but three years later, the venture capitalist persuaded her firm, BoxGroup, to invest in the Gen Z engineering savant’s nascent business.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • My accommodations unfolded in a graceful series of rooms with couches, a four-poster bed, and a dual-vanity bathroom.
    — Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Few people passing through today would have any reason to remember the long-ago tragedy that unfolded here.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
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
Verb
  • Debbie Zildjian, who oversees the alloy process today, learned it from her father.
    — Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Soto, the Herald learned, met with the former lawmaker in Haiti.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The 6-foot-9 forward who signed a veteran minimum contract showed willingness to pick up opposing ball-handlers full court.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • In that incident, surveillance footage — first reported by the Daily News — showed the fare-checkers pushing Brooklyn school aide Kyle Taylor up against a bus stop shelter following a fare dispute that had turned physical.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • One even got in trouble and is shackled to a wooden pillory, serving as an example to others who disobey the crown and engage in piracy.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The burglars then got in a sport-utility vehicle and left, police said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

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“Turned up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20up. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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