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panning out

VERB

come to pass; succeed

Synonyms

STRONGEST

turn out

WEAK

click come out culminate eventuate go go over happen net prove out result work out yield

Antonyms

WEAK

fail not happen

Example Sentences

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Some companies canceled moonshots that weren’t panning out, Equilar found.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

But Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group said he doesn't see such strategies panning out.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

Investors will also be anxious for insight from management as to how it sees earnings panning out in 2026.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president of College Futures Foundation, which commissioned the study, said that its aim is to help community colleges “better understand how the promise of economic mobility ... is panning out or not.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

He was too good at panning out the single grain of gold in a raging river of uselessness for me not to like him — respect him, anyway.

From Craphound by Doctorow, Cory