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turn out

(RESULT)

Definition

to happen or become known to happen in a particular way: She assured him that everything would turn out all right. It turns out (that) Ray had borrowed the money from one of his students.
(Definition of turn out (RESULT) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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