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pan out
verb
- informal.intr, adverb to work out; turn out; result
Idioms and Phrases
Turn out well, succeed, as in If I don't pan out as a musician, I can always go back to school . This expression alludes to washing gold from gravel in a pan. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Depending on how things pan out this season there will be between eight and 11 teams from the Premier League taking part in Europe next season.
So, it is hard to know how the game will pan out.
The season hasn't panned out how we expected.
When the cameras pan out, they reveal the full scope of this image.
That has not panned out, especially in the case of China, so the US is moving decisively away from this world.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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