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as in appearing
to come into view
my missing car keys turned up just in time
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2
as in arriving
to get to a destination
when do you think our guests will turn up?
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as in finding
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
it took days to turn up the original documents
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Recent Examples of turning up
Her Avalon pair gave Cannes a more subtle version of a slouchy boot shape that has been turning up in more dramatic form this spring.
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Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
Venus in Cancer is turning up the romance, creativity and passion in your life.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
Two weeks ago, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors declared a local emergency after the mussels began increasingly turning up in water equipment there.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
With the summer approaching and the heat turning up, Madix is prepping for the new season and shared her excitement about going back to the villa in Fiji with a whole new crop of Islanders.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2026
The three buildings are at the heart of Miyagawa-cho, where geiko and maiko can be observed entering their ochaya teahouses for the night or turning up for morning performing arts training at the Kaburenjo.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2026
During their reporting, the two came across reports of dozens of corpses turning up in the area around the time of Aujay’s disappearance.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 21 Mar. 2026
The water is equivalent to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and humans have essentially stuck a hose into the pool and every year been turning up the faucet — so the water is rising faster and faster.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
Clues were still turning up long after the Downtown Detention Center opened, in May, 2020.
—James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
Venus in Cancer is turning up the romance, creativity and passion in your life.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
Two weeks ago, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors declared a local emergency after the mussels began increasingly turning up in water equipment there.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
With the summer approaching and the heat turning up, Madix is prepping for the new season and shared her excitement about going back to the villa in Fiji with a whole new crop of Islanders.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2026
The three buildings are at the heart of Miyagawa-cho, where geiko and maiko can be observed entering their ochaya teahouses for the night or turning up for morning performing arts training at the Kaburenjo.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2026
During their reporting, the two came across reports of dozens of corpses turning up in the area around the time of Aujay’s disappearance.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 21 Mar. 2026
The water is equivalent to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and humans have essentially stuck a hose into the pool and every year been turning up the faucet — so the water is rising faster and faster.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
Clues were still turning up long after the Downtown Detention Center opened, in May, 2020.
—James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turning up
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Arena ads made up the vast majority of all gambling references in all of the games, appearing once every 11 seconds on average.—
Luke Connors,
Washington Post,
19 May 2026
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The Rachofskys, for their part, are mainstays on the annual ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, appearing on it each edition since 2002.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
19 May 2026
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And the end came well before midnight, with goals by Mitch Marner and Brett Howden in the first 8½ minutes giving Vegas a commanding lead before many in the late-arriving weeknight crowd had made it to their seats at the Honda Center.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2026
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In her 2018 memoir about her sobriety, Leslie Jamison describes arriving at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop decades after Cheever and Carver taught there.—
Luis Parrales,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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Grisebach has a flair for finding faces with striking, weatherbeaten features that might have grown out of the landscape itself.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
22 May 2026
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Ahead, our editors gladly risked a few good makeup days in the name of finding the best ones.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
22 May 2026
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But conversations at the inaugural Association for Enterprise Opportunity State of Small Business Summit suggested something more complicated is unfolding.—
Natalie Madeira Cofield,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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What’s happening in Fort Worth The Parker County purchase is unfolding while Black Mountain’s $10 billion data center project in southeast Fort Worth runs into steady community pushback.—
Emily Holshouser. Produced with AI assistance,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 May 2026
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Of course, the numbers are typically trademarked, so as Stern reported, the idea — which came from Fox Sports IndyCar commentator Townsend Bell — required getting in touch with Joe Gibbs Racing.—
Matt Reigle,
FOXNews.com,
24 May 2026
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Irina Shayk looks back at the camera before getting in her car at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20.—
People Staff,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
Verb
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Work with that element of chance because learning to enjoy embracing—working with it—is fun and fun isn’t logical, and logic isn’t always your ally in that initial stage of creation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Torn between toiling away at farmwork, his corrective swimming lessons, and learning music from a local organist — the elderly Michel (Alexandre Astier, Clichy’s former directing partner), who shows him more kindness than most — Christophe’s world gradually widens.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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The tight timeline puts a lot of pressure on the Artemis III lander testing mission, as well as the uncrewed tests proposed for SpaceX and Blue Origin, with funding for the latter coming out of the companies’ own pockets.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
11 May 2026
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That eased some of the concern coming out of Game 2, when Thompson was one of Buffalo’s worst players.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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Levain Bakery, known for its cookies, is coming soon to the center, as is contemporary fashion brand Varley.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
22 May 2026
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In Seoul, President Lee Jae Myung is grappling with a split-screen few saw coming.—
William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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“Turning up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turning%20up. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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