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What does pan out mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pan out? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (usually transitive) To separate and recover (valuable minerals) by swirling dirt or crushed rock in a pan of water, in the manner of a traditional prospector seeking gold.
  2. (idiomatic, usually intransitive) To succeed; to proceed according to plan; to result or end up.
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Although Hugo's routine has been a little out of whack, I'm sticking to our routine in the hopes it'll pan out.
I was a bit down in the dumps, and I started thinking that maybe football wouldn't pan out in the way I had expected.
Still if they can manage to recruit the right calibre of personnel to stand alongside Mayor Nuala Ryan who knows how things may pan out for them.
But if the projections of jobs and a subsequent biotech boomlet pan out, those investors are going to reap the benefits.
Still, if Ivanov's hoped-for human trials pan out, a syringe of EDTA may one day join that space blanket in your winter survival kit.
Will the aforementioned ex-Browns D-linemen pan out or stay mired in bust status?

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