TURNING UP Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

turning up

verb

present participle of turn up

as in appearing

to come into view my missing car keys turned up just in time

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Relevance

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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 The Jets have dropped two straight games to fall to 2-5, turning up the heat on coach Aaron Glenn. — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 29 Oct. 2026 While Aguilera is no stranger to turning up the heat online, the singer has also pushed back against scrutiny of her appearance. — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026 Months later, the models were turning up weaknesses no one had spotted before. — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026 The straighter, skinnier pants on the catwalks the last few seasons are now turning up on the streets. — Irene Kim, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026 Crowe, watching from behind one-way glass and turning up in encounters beyond the confines of the study itself, gives that intensity a perfectly legible antagonist, if not always a valid one. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026 To compile its 2027 list, the firm's strategists asked Morgan Stanley's North America analysts for their top recommendation for a one-year buy-and-hold investment horizon, turning up more than 50 names. — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 At first Tassie merely goes through the motions, turning up and pretty much dozing off her hangovers while her charges shoot her disapproving glances. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 City had only won once at the home of their rivals in the past four visits, having become used to turning up and handing out a drubbing for the bulk of the Guardiola era. — Sam Lee, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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Verb

West Point implemented a rule in early 2025 that sought to bar civilian and military professors from publishing papers, speaking at conferences or appearing on podcasts without seeking approval from superiors.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
Custom firmware packages The development scene around the FM-1 is exploding, and new options are appearing all the time.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of appearing

Verb

Meanwhile, Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said Friday afternoon that all four Moscow airports -- Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky -- stopped flights arriving and departing for security reasons.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Mitsubishi Eclipse Sportback Mitsubishi is again capitalizing on the Eclipse name, this time with the 2027 Eclipse Sportback, an all-electric subcompact SUV arriving in 2026.

— Matt Degen, AJC.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of arriving

Verb

The center back would immediately shoot the ball, which took a fortunate bounce immediately outside the goal area before finding the bottom-left corner of the net.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
When a server migration wipes out Sally’s treasured videos of him — and her phone containing backup copies accidentally shatters — the only hope is finding the original tapes.

— Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of finding

Verb

The Ohio artist’s first album in four years is paranoid, indulgent, and theatrical, unfolding like a dark romantasy novel.

— Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2026
Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz and several commissioners criticized the plan for linking county government with a video game that revels in violence unfolding in a fictional Miami.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of unfolding

Verb

Unlike training approaches that largely depend on preparing datasets and updating models before deployment, this framework allows robots to continue learning while performing actual jobs.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
This technique has since been used to study neural circuits involved in everything from defecation to learning.

— Simon Makin, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of learning

Verb

The flooding is just the latest from two months of on-and-off heavy rain caused by tropical moisture coming ashore from the Pacific.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
The flooding is just the latest episode in two months of on-and-off heavy rain in the region caused by tropical moisture coming ashore from the Pacific.

— Anna Wilder, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of coming

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