turns up

verb

present tense third-person singular of turn up
1
as in appears
to come into view my missing car keys turned up just in time

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

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3
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 Trey Smack was perfect in preseason games, but the pressure turns up when the real games start. — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Magnesium turns up in green leafy vegetables, nuts, seeds, dark chocolate and whole grains. — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026 Continue reading … SILICON STANDOFF — US adversary turns up the heat on America’s AI lead with an underestimated edge. — FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 However, when body turns up, seeding distrust among the residents. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026 Homecoming aside, there’s still the Trawler to worry about, a fact we’re reminded of when another victim turns up on a playground, this time with a pentagram carved into his back and fish corpses shoved into his wounds. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026 The habit that turns up again and again among people who reason clearly isn’t consumption at all. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 There’s something subversive in the way that Carlile turns up the rage quotient onstage at Newport. — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026 Sims catches a hitch and turns up field but fumbles the ball while switching hands. — Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turns up
  1. appears
  2. arrives
  3. finds
  4. unfolds
  5. comes
  6. learns
  7. shows
  8. gets in
Verb
  • Trump has also posted numerous AI memes on social media about Canada, and the White House’s official X account posted an image of a bald eagle stepping on what appears to be a Canada goose.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Rather, Venezuela’s interim government appears to be weighing options that align with the interests of US companies considering investments in the country, which would not want to be constrained by OPEC production quotas.
    — Amena Bakr, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of appears
Verb
  • The modern American Dream is best described as a private bunker where the outside world arrives entirely in a cardboard box or a fiber-optic cable.
    — John Mac Ghlionn, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Now, as van den Berg arrives for his first NFL regular season with Sunday’s Bears-Panthers opener in Charlotte, he is expected to play a sizable role as part of the Bears’ defensive line rotation.
    — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of arrives
Verb
  • Being unmarked and arriving with momentum, Odegaard finds himself in a one-v-one with the goalkeeper again caught on his line.
    — Jon Mackenzie, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Bridgespan’s report finds that families in middle-income countries are more likely to administer their own programs than those in higher-income countries.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of finds
Verb
  • Within that room unfolds the tale of the Swiss architect of the title, told in occasionally laborious ways.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 6 Sep. 2026
  • McLaughlin’s most notable change concerns the frame of the play, which now unfolds in a disaster relief center.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of unfolds
Verb
  • As a retired fighter, Taylor faces the daunting task of deciding what comes next.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • There comes a moment, looking at Evans’s dense worlds, when the eye stops decoding and the mind begins to surrender.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of comes
Verb
  • Israel robs children of their smallest joys because joy is the seed of hope, and that is how the body learns that captivity is not the natural condition of life.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Upon arriving in New York, April learns that her affable son Thoe (Toby Wallace) and his girlfriend Lucy (Odessa A’zion) have already met Sandra without her knowing.
    — Matthew Huff, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of learns
Verb
  • Moor explains how this form of thought emphasizes branching, growth, and pruning, as opposed to hierarchical ordering, and shows how these principles can be identified in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Wordsworth.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The big story This photograph taken on November 5, 2025 shows employees inspecting photovoltaic (PV) cells used in solar panels at an Adani Group factory in Gujarat’s port city of Mundra.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of shows
Verb
  • Even Fresno gets in on this, with several days of highs in the 80s later in the coming week.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The engineering department designed the parts of the brush to fit snugly so that no water gets in.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
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