TURNED OUT Synonyms: 148 Similar and Opposite Words

turned out

verb

past tense of turn out

as in rolled out

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

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as in cleaned

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

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as in dismissed

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

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as in proved

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

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Recent Examples of turned out Trump carried by about 34 percentage points in the last presidential election, some Republican and independents turned out for Hamilton. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 Oklahoma State University, which took over testing, had a strong lead this year, and a DNA packet sent to a possible relative turned out to be a match, said Rouse, the coroner. — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2026 In a phone interview, L'Anse Creuse Superintendent Keith Howell said that principals have to make decisions all the time about how to manage situations, and that last Friday night turned out well because of the revision to the first notice. — Heath Kalb, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 Video review determined the fan did interfere, the play was scored an RBI double for Volpe but the run that did not turned out to be the difference. — Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 The replay official scored it an RBI double for Volpe with a run scored, but the run that did not turned out to be the difference. — Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 That turned out to be the case with Biden, who reluctantly ended his presidential reelection campaign in July 2024. — Nancy Forster-Holt, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026 Two people carrying the same title turned out to be doing quite different work. — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 That discipline turned out to be its own form of competitive advantage. — Harvard Business Review, 29 Sep. 2026

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Verb

Maia 300 will start being rolled out to production in 2027, and it has been designed with efficiency in mind.

— Tom Warren, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2026
Officials rolled out the Housing Gateway Program this year, seeking to coordinate efforts among the city, nonprofits, providers and private businesses and take cues from successful efforts in other cities.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026

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Buckets overflowed with conch and clams, and customers pointed to whole fish on ice to be cleaned and cut for dinner.

— Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2026
Pictures show the ancient Roman silver denarii after they were carefully cleaned, some bearing portraits and inscriptions.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of cleaned

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Williams argued that without a viable federal copyright claim, Hugo’s state-law claims involving breach of fiduciary duty and an incomplete accounting should also be dismissed, leaving him free to pursue those claims separately in state court.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2026
Last weekend in Highland, Michigan, Rogers dismissed El-Sayed's attempts to whittle away at his GOP base of support.

— Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of dismissed

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Heintz fell out of her vehicle, and police said Royce Moser picked her up, put her in the hatch of her Jeep Cherokee and drove her to his mom's house in Beallsville.

— Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Below, Bourne explains how and why Black in the British Frame fell out of print.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026