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turning up

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In the last few years, the character has begun to catch on in America, even turning up on a recent episode of American Dad.

From being barely visible in the first days of the crisis in Ferguson, he is now turning up on every talk show that will have him.

The elderly seemed to be the majority of voters turning up to vote but there was a fair sprinkling of young people.

Maier was an unknown photographer whose pictures and negatives began turning up in Chicago storage lockers in 2007.

After writing all day I sometimes want to watch a whole lot of British TV, preferably set at Oxford, with dead bodies turning up.

Before turning up the eleventh card he paused for the fraction of a second.

After a time she managed to grope her way to her bedroom, where, turning up the light, she sank down helplessly upon the bed.

How tiresome it was that they seemed always to be 'turning up,' as Jacinth expressed it to herself!

The accompanying sketch shows a handy device for turning up and unscrewing the covers on glass fruit jars.

Here Abdullah came forward, making a gesture of disgust, and turning up his eyes in pious horror.

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On this page you'll find 121 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to turn up, such as: appear, attend, come in, enter, materialize, and show up.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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