TURNS UP Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

turns up

verb

Definition of turns up next

present tense third-person singular of turn up

as in appears

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

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Relevance

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as in arrives

to get to a destination when do you think our guests will turn up?

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as in finds

to come upon after searching, study, or effort it took days to turn up the original documents

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Recent Examples of turns up The inspection includes placing a dye into toilets and holding tanks to see if any of the dye turns up in the water around the boat, indicating a leak. —

Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026 Then one of Shapira’s fellow soldiers turns up and shoots the Syrian dead. —

John Hopewell, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026 Beetz stars as Asia, a young woman who turns up on the stoop of a high-end Manhattan apartment building, the Virgil, answering an ad for a maid job. —

Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 2026 This season, Billy really turns up the fashion, and his obsession with fashion becomes very clear. —

Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 Mar. 2026 Poitier stars as Homer Smith, a drifter who turns up in a small Arizona town and helps a group of nuns construct a chapel for the local community. —

Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026 One day in January 1766, a scruffy visitor turns up at Prince of Wales’ Fort, a remote trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company in what is now northern Manitoba. —

Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2026 Jesse challenges fast-food chains into signing covenants with PUSH to hire and distribute proportionally to their black customers; Noah turns up with a chain of Wendy's, Bojangles, and Church's Fried Chicken in both Chicago and New York. —

Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026 The song turns up early in the film. —

Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2026

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Named for his grandfather, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro has for more than a decade acted as part bodyguard, part gatekeeper to Cuba’s most powerful living figure, always just feet away when Raúl Castro appears in public.

— Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
Another trend that Lu pinpointed was that the brand appears to maintain long-term relationships with suppliers; of the 800 apparel factories its uses, 314 (almost 40 percent) have worked with the company for over a decade, and 126 have produced garments for H&M for 6-10 yerars.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 29 Apr. 2026