pan out
[verb]
Synonyms: succeed, click, come off, go, go over, prove out

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pan out phrasal verb (see also pan)
to happen or develop in a particular way:
We’ll have to see how things pan out.

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pan out
to happen or be successful.
He was very creative, although not all his ideas have panned out.

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pan out
to end or finish favorably, to work out well
"I hope that your plans to go back to school pan out."

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pan out
v., informal To have a result, especially a good result; result favorably; succeed.
Suppose the class tried to make money by selling candy. How would that pan out?
Edison's efforts to invent an electric light bulb did not pan out until he used tungsten wires.

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