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

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turnout

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noun

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Recent Examples of turn out
Verb
Meanwhile, parents, students and community members turned out to express support for LGBTQ+ rights and protections. Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025 The rally in Nampa follows the tens of thousands who turned out to see them in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City over the weekend. Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
Besides strong turnout in Democratic-heavy areas, Crawford did measurably better in the suburban Milwaukee counties that Republicans rely on to run up their margins statewide. Time, 3 Apr. 2025 Reviews have been mixed (48% on Rotten Tomatoes), though that clearly didn’t have an influence on audience turnout. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for turn out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turn out
Verb
  • Vaccinations Drop Off Late last year, the CDC rolled out a seasonal flu vaccine campaign targeted at more than 200,000 livestock workers.
    Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Trump had rolled out a flurry of individual-nation levies on trading partners, including one sky-high fee: a tax on Chinese goods of 104%.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • When customers send in their preloved pieces via mail, Faherty will clean, repair and relist the items on Faherty’s Second Wave site.
    Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • With power comes great responsibility—to clean, that is.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Gators and Clayton somehow overcame Houston’s lock-down intensity Monday night to will out a 65-63 victory in an NCAA title-game thriller decided when the Florida senior’s own defense stopped the Cougars from even taking a winning shot at the buzzer.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The Gators and Clayton somehow overcame Houston’s lockdown intensity, along with a 12-point deficit Monday night to will out a 65-63 victory in an NCAA title-game thriller decided when the Florida senior’s own D stopped the Cougars from even taking a game-winning shot at the buzzer.
    Eddie Pells, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The first three days of the season took care of such foolish rookie thoughts and proved to be a humbling, but learning, experience.
    Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The asterisk in that is that the group did do a short tour in 2021-22 — but with the famous Blondie drummer Clem Burke sitting in for Schock, who had to sit out gigs due to thumb surgery.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Freelancing: Freelancing and gig work are especially attractive to millennials and baby boomers seeking greater autonomy and work-life balance.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Investors are slowly waking to the opportunities created by China’s ban on the export of rare earths but a modest uptick in the share prices of non-Chinese miners of the material could be just the start of something much bigger.
    Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • As Pennsylvania State Police were searching for the arsonist, troopers woke Gov. Josh Shapiro around 2 a.m. so that he, his wife, their four children, two dogs and another family could be evacuated.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Security on the scene in Houston said the decision whether to eject the fan ultimately rested with the Astros and Major League Baseball.
    Sam Blum, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The man was ejected from the scooter and landed in a southbound lane, where he was struck by a vehicle.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • After falling out of the lead on the second hole, McIlroy regained the top spot and held it throughout most of the rest of the round.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Thiel was a major Trump supporter during the 2016 campaign, but later had a falling out with the president and was largely on the sidelines in 2024 even as many of his tech peers rallied behind the Republican leader.
    Ari Levy, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2025

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