TURNS UP Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

turns up

verb

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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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 Her cousin, played by Azam Quadri, turns up without warning after 15 years away, and his visit brings back the events that once split the family. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 Kardashian stars in the seasonal campaign that turns up the heat with fresh styles, available on Fabletics’ official website beginning Thursday. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026 In one scene, the couple turns up the music while the sound of ambulance sirens floods the streets. — Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for turns up

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The former weapon of mass destruction has been in hiding for some time, but a bounty hunter tracks him down and disrupts his quiet life before also discovering a young man who appears to be Vision’s son.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
In one scene, a padlock appears to lock without a key or even being properly closed.

— Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of appears

Verb

Penélope Cruz arrives for a few scenes as a wartime cabaret singer — her performance for a group of cheering soldiers is a burst of bawdy energy.

— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Bruns points out that the cost of diesel affects everything that arrives via truck, from boat supplies to the wood for the crab traps, so expenses for fishermen have risen, too.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of arrives

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On Uncle, fish narc sheds his past experimental impulses and finds a new identity within ebullient, feel-good college rock.

— Jeff Yerger, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026
The basic model of competitive markets which one finds in an introductory economics textbook—where independent firms engage in cold arm’s-length transactions motivated by unadulterated self-interest—does not apply to the industry.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of finds

Verb

Sympathy comes later, unleashed in 18th-century thought through Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759).

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
The predominantly beige canvas comes spring loaded with pops of color, notably a sunset orange shade.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of comes

Verb

As this chart shows, AI capex spending has juiced the net earnings of S&P 500 companies.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
But experimental progress over the past few decades shows that Schrödinger’s equation is not valid only for minuscule particles.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of shows

Verb

An operative arrives, gets in the car and drives it south to Mexico.

— Steve Fisher Special Correspondent Follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
Entire neighborhoods were inundated and the drainage network swamped after over 12 inches of rain fell during two or three days last week, or nearly as much as the sprawling low-lying city usually gets in all of September.

— Reuters, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026

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