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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
La Marque led 12-11 after one quarter, but Carter turned up the heat by out scoring the Cougars 43-7 in the second and third periods.
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Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2026
And as the Lakers turned up the heat, the Bulls melted into it.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
The 50-day moving average has turned up and is now rising through the mid-$90s, acting as short-term trend support.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
While our panel of experts all turned up different recommendations, there were a few common threads.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2026
The worms were among 38 confirmed new species turned up by a single deep-sea expedition in June 2025, with 28 additional candidates still awaiting classification.
—Ryan Brennan
march 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
In a message to families Wednesday, Twin Rivers turned up the heat on the union.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Now, a little less than a decade later, the company has turned up with its successor, the M2 prototype.
—New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2026
Police sources say McDermott resisted arrest, and a subsequent search turned up a crack pipe.
—Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2026
And as the Lakers turned up the heat, the Bulls melted into it.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
The 50-day moving average has turned up and is now rising through the mid-$90s, acting as short-term trend support.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
While our panel of experts all turned up different recommendations, there were a few common threads.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2026
The worms were among 38 confirmed new species turned up by a single deep-sea expedition in June 2025, with 28 additional candidates still awaiting classification.
—Ryan Brennan
march 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
In a message to families Wednesday, Twin Rivers turned up the heat on the union.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Now, a little less than a decade later, the company has turned up with its successor, the M2 prototype.
—New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2026
Police sources say McDermott resisted arrest, and a subsequent search turned up a crack pipe.
—Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turned up
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The mural, along with several posters of the same color, also appeared around the city, causing fans on social media to go into a frenzy of excitement and wonder what exactly was going on.—
Charlie Vargas,
Oc Register,
17 Mar. 2026
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Pitman did not respond to multiple interview requests early Monday evening, by which time the Gillyweeds Facebook page appeared to have been taken down.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
17 Mar. 2026
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Firefighters arrived to heavy fire in a multi-level building on College Point Boulevard.—
Joanna Moriello,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2026
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And indeed, Beuerlein, who thought his days as a quarterback were over until Holtz arrived and restored his faith and self-confidence, had already worked through his own emotions in the nearly two weeks since Holtz’s death.—
Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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Indian hotelier Ashok Khanna founded the place as a response to epidemic stress levels, with a mission to rebalance holistically.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Mar. 2026
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Encode is led by Stanford University student Sneha Revanur, who founded the organization in 2020.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Mar. 2026
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The storms also unfolded just as airport security screeners missed their first full paycheck over the weekend.—
Emilie Megnien,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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The storms unfolded just as airport security screeners missed their first full paycheck over the weekend.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Mar. 2026
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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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This will be a bumper quarter for oil and gas shareholders, who have always learned to stick it out through the doldrums for spikey periods like this.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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The Herald has learned the city’s largest police union, Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association and SEIU Local 888 were two of the three unions to vote in favor of the city’s cost-cutting offer for GLP-1 drugs.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
19 Mar. 2026
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The demonstration showed how multiple unmanned systems can work together as part of a coordinated network.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2026
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Iran's government on Sunday showed journalists buildings damaged by strikes in Tehran on Friday.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Mar. 2026
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Some brand accounts, including the Empire State Building and Chipotle, even got in on the memes.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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The episodes helped the fourth season generate 28M views over this interval, which is exactly what the second half of Season 3 got in its opening weekend as well.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Turned up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20up. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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