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as in to succeed
to turn out as planned or desired
the investment scheme didn't quite pan out
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Recent Examples of pan out
None of those deals panned out, despite the brands being more aligned with Prada's minimalist design aesthetic than is Versace.
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Lucinda Shen, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025
Even when there are stud prospects expected to become first-round picks there’s no guarantee those players will even pan out, becoming quarterbacks who can carry a franchise for a couple of years.
—Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025
So here are the basics of how a crash pans out.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The Victor Mancini-Quinn Hughes experiment hasn’t panned out With Tyler Myers injured, Elias Pettersson and Victor Mancini both drew into the lineup for this weekend’s games rather than rotating in and out for each other.
—Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Lucinda Shen, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025
Even when there are stud prospects expected to become first-round picks there’s no guarantee those players will even pan out, becoming quarterbacks who can carry a franchise for a couple of years.
—Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025
So here are the basics of how a crash pans out.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The Victor Mancini-Quinn Hughes experiment hasn’t panned out With Tyler Myers injured, Elias Pettersson and Victor Mancini both drew into the lineup for this weekend’s games rather than rotating in and out for each other.
—Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pan out
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Jarred Kelenic, picked up in trade from the Seattle Mariners in the 2023-2024 offseason, has proven to be a liability as well, starting the season with an anemic slash line of .146./.239/.244.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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Naysayers insisted that increasing content costs would match the company’s rapid topline and subscriber growth, and profits would prove illusory.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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The endeavor succeeded and eventually became known as Shift4.—
Wendy Whitman Cobb,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2025
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But El Salvador’s crackdown on gang violence succeeded in large part because the country’s police had spent years carefully amassing legal evidence.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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If one or two bounces had gone the other way, Dartmouth would have advanced to the final four for the first time in school history.—
Jay King,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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Instead, the Knicks went 0-10 against the league’s top three teams (the Celtics, Cavaliers and Thunder).—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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In closed session a month before a personnel vote, board members go over personnel issues with CPS’ legal staff — what has been recommended and how the employee got to this point in the termination process.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Apr. 2025
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Multiple fighters went over to acknowledge Trump after their events had ended.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
16 Apr. 2025
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The trigger and bumper on the right Joy-Con 2 felt like clicking the left and right mouse buttons, and the controller slid smoothly.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
10 Apr. 2025
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Like most comedies, North of North takes a few episodes to click into its fullest potential.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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The projects’ operating costs are still being worked out.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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There are an infinite number of ways to find solutions to creative problems, to work out any conceivable challenge.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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