Can I use "It appeared that..." in the meaning of "It turned out that..." or it can only mean "It seemed that..."?
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I can't think of any situation in which "It appeared that ..." could mean "It turned out that ...".
For example:
It turned out that he was the perpetrator after all. = When all the evidence was in, the truth, it appeared: that he was the perpetrator after all.