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to pan out
01
to succeed or come to a favorable outcome
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Inseparable
Particle
out
Base verb
pan
Present tense
pan out
3rd person singular
pans out
Present participle
panning out
Past simple
panned out
Past participle
panned out
Examples
They faced many setbacks in their project, but in the end, everything panned out.
02
to search for gold or other valuable substances by washing dirt or sand in a pan
Examples
The old man told tales of how he used to pan out in the valleys and found gold.
