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as in succeeds
to turn out as planned or desired
the investment scheme didn't quite pan out
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Recent Examples of pans out
Wenger still faces sentencing in that case, regardless of how the civil rights trial pans out.
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Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Time will tell if this trade pans out well for the Packers in 2025, but if Parsons continues double-digit sacks, Green Bay will be a big problem this season.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Time will tell if this trade pans out well for the Packers in 2025, but if Parsons continues double-digit sacks, Green Bay will be a big problem this season.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pans out
Verb
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Kelly Dever is that rarest of exceptions that proves the rule.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Her strained relationship with her mother has little nuance, and the unsatisfying, abrupt ending that leaves the two still at odds proves curiously sour for an otherwise gentle movie.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In my experience, digital transformation succeeds when technology serves a clear operational need.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Bourne attempts to help Simon Ross (Paddy Considine), an English journalist who claims to have information about Blackbriar, Treadstone’s successor program, but succeeds only in getting CIA assassins on their tails.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Slater goes deep twice The list of batters who can claim legitimate ownage against Kershaw is small.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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The same goes for its overall profile, though, there’s a lot going on in its front fascia—the side venting is seemingly there for function, but the massive grille is… a lot.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The 8,000-square-foot space Redtail works out of is enough to make around eight vans a year, and they already are booked through 2026.—
Max Scheinblum,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
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In 2023, the data gathering platform Statista estimated that 46% of all emails were spam, which works out to 160 billion emails sent each day.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Pans out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pans%20out. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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