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

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turnout

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noun

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Recent Examples of turn out
Verb
In fact, thousands turned out to get close to the flower of the world's stinkiest plant in January in Australia. New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2025 Near the end of what turned out to be a 5-2 loss to Houston during the Twins’ home opener at Target Field, Minnesota pitchers were looking to do something never done before to Altuve — strike him out five times in a game. Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
Large turnouts have been reported in New York City’s midtown Manhattan; Cleveland, Ohio; Philadelphia; and Lansing, Michigan. Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2025 Anderson and Lago argued that moving elections to November would increase voter turnout, while the other three said April elections prevent the noise of national politics from drowning out the campaigns of grassroots candidates in municipal races. Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for turn out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turn out
Verb
  • Vaccinations Drop Off Late last year, the CDC rolled out a seasonal flu vaccine campaign targeted at more than 200,000 livestock workers.
    Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Trump had rolled out a flurry of individual-nation levies on trading partners, including one sky-high fee: a tax on Chinese goods of 104%.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • With power comes great responsibility—to clean, that is.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 Apr. 2025
  • When customers send in their preloved pieces via mail, Faherty will clean, repair and relist the items on Faherty’s Second Wave site.
    Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The sudden change reportedly outed multiple students who are transgender or have legal name changes.
    Andrew King, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Lifestyle gurus of all types (none outed as serial killers to date) closely document their rise-and-grind rituals, encouraging followers to seize the day with healthy and intentional choices.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Hiltz dropped a personal best in the 800-meter yesterday, proving to be one of the favorites to earn the large prize.
    Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Now that team is trying to prove the investments were worth the cost.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The asterisk in that is that the group did do a short tour in 2021-22 — but with the famous Blondie drummer Clem Burke sitting in for Schock, who had to sit out gigs due to thumb surgery.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Freelancing: Freelancing and gig work are especially attractive to millennials and baby boomers seeking greater autonomy and work-life balance.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And while Stitch stands over her protectively, looking confused but not trying to wake her, tiny Taco has a different approach.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Trump has made the war on woke a centerpiece of his early weeks in office.
    Suzanne Nossel, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • After a month-long pause, during which the Kremlin’s priority was to eject a strong Ukrainian force from western Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the Russians are on the attack again outside Pokrovsk, a fortress city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
    David Axe, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Reid, DiVincenzo, Holland, Isaiah Stewart, Marcus Sasser, Bickerstaff, 46, and Prigioni, 47, were all ejected from the game, NBA.com reported.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • During the long reprieve, borrowers fell out of the repayment habit, and some grew to expect loan forgiveness that hasn't materialized.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Then when Daboll took over play calling full-time in 2024, the bottom fell out to 31st in scoring in the NFL.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025

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