intransitive verb
Definition 1
Of person or thing, appear (at or in place), often under circumstances of note, e.g. late, uninvited, believed lost, etc.
Source: When he [the poet W.H. Auden] sent Dartington's founder, Dorothy Elmhirst, an experimental play, "The Fronnie", she managed to lose it, although it eventually turned up in the archives.
Context: Financial Times 25/08/2005 (Tony Thorncroft)