TURNS OUT Synonyms: 146 Similar and Opposite Words

turns out

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Definition of turns out next

present tense third-person singular of turn out

as in rolls out

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

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as in cleans

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

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as in outs

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

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as in proves

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

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Recent Examples of turns out Despite all of the history held within Woodstone, getting that designation turns out to be harder than expected. —

Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026 The wrinkle morphology that evolved to improve grip in wet conditions turns out to also function, incidentally, as an identity marker that only manifests under the environmental conditions that originally selected for it. —

Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 Comic relief comes in her exasperated answers to media questions from back home — turns out that space isn’t far enough to escape the culture wars — and in her entertaining video call with a classroom of young kids. —

Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026 Arlo turns out to love Massive Attack and Elliott Smith, and to have a sadly levelheaded understanding of his mother’s suicide. —

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Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026 The popular image of Neanderthals living deep in caves turns out to be wrong. —

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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026 The mobility business turns out to be not a great profitable business. —

Jamie Lincoln Kitman, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026

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In this one, Almodóvar opens the front door for it and rolls out the red carpet with a slightly crooked smile on his face.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 May 2026
Instead of a lean eight-episode binge drop and a moody antihero, the medical drama rolls out 15-episode seasons, one a week, full of lofty ideals and heroic characters fighting the good fight.

— Jennifer Silverman, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026