TURNS OUT Synonyms: 146 Similar and Opposite Words

turns out

verb

present tense third-person singular of turn out

as in rolls out

to leave one's bed we turn out early on workdays

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as in cleans

to remove the dirt from it's our practice to turn out the room after guests stay over

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as in outs

to drive or force out angrily turned their adult son out of their home for using drugs

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as in proves

to come to be everything will turn out fine in the end

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Recent Examples of turns out Time for Tyler to make a perfectly reasonable assumption that quickly turns out to be very wrong. — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 18 Sep. 2026 The driver turns out to be a former co-worker of Ho-seok’s, and for initially unspecified reasons, refuses to take them. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, climate experts are asking if an El Niño turns out to be the strongest on record, as many forecast models suggest, what will a historically strong El Niño look like stacked on top of the planet’s unprecedented warming? — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026 So when Alex rejects the author of a romantasy novel entitled The Goblin Seed that turns out to be a bestseller, all hell breaks loose. — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 24 Aug. 2026 Paris’s Palais de Tokyo will close for repairs in July 2027, necessitating a temporary move to a location that turns out to be hotly contested, French daily Libération reports. — News Desk, Artforum, 3 Aug. 2026 But when researchers look closely at the friendships that actually make it from young adulthood into midlife and beyond, longevity turns out to be less about the past and more about a couple of ongoing, almost unglamorous behaviors. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 But what happens when the CEO of a platform for ticket resellers turns out to be one himself? — Diane Brady, Fortune, 27 July 2026 If the film turns out to be as good as this trailer, Cruise (and Iñárritu) might be looking at another Oscar nomination. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

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Traders should be prepared for volatility as the Fed rolls out its decision on rates this Wednesday, Woods said.

— Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
The way that Mitchell rolls out this reveal, which the audience is aware of long before any of the characters, is a real scream.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026

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There’s a very quick interview about filmmaking (and concrete) with Sopranos star and Ridgewood regular Michael Imperioli, and a longer interview with a guy who cleans gum off sidewalks professionally.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
Perdomo Torres, 27, was one of seven people in a van owned by Professional Ocean Service Corp, a company that cleans planes.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of cleans

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When Schaesta Ama outs him and kicks him out of their home, Payam comes to Mansur’s aide (albeit temporarily) but does not invite him up into his caste for more than an afternoon.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
At first the killer is revealed to be Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), and Wadsworth outs himself as FBI.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026

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Trump dismisses warnings Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk have all called for greater government oversight of the industry after a series of hacks revealed AI agents conspiring to deceive humans.

— Jill Colvin, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
The report dismisses theories that the downfall of SVB was accelerated by rumors spreading on social media at the time.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026