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turn out all right

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  1. Also, work out all right. Succeed, as in The new cover turned out all right, or We're hoping their vacation will work out all right. The first term uses turn out in the sense of “result”; the variant uses work out in the sense of “proceed so as to produce a certain outcome,” a usage dating from the later 1800s. Also see pan out; work out.


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Sometimes, he said, he looks down and thinks: “Things did turn out all right in the end.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024

It could all still turn out all right.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

People who say, "If you just think the right thoughts, everything is going to turn out all right," not so.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2021

The viewers are in on this secret almost from the beginning, which turns the series into a protracted exercise of hurry-up-and-wait, to see if things turn out all right.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020

He knew I was upset about the fight and said that everything would probably turn out all right.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

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