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bear out

British  

verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to show to be true or truthful; confirm

    the witness will bear me out
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
bear out Idioms  

  1. Back up or confirm, as in The results bear out what he predicted, or His story bears me out exactly. [Late 1400s]

Example Sentences

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New York’s gradually improving crime statistics bear out Ms. Tisch’s approach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

Studies bear out the various health benefits of money.

From Slate • Jan. 1, 2025

Such convictions bear out in the many projects Luna has produced throughout his career and lately, that’s under the banner of his and García Bernal’s production company, La Corriente del Golfo.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024

Before his 1994 fall, his success seemed to bear out that hypothesis.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2024

But what Kaz Czarnecki intuited, and what the years would bear out, was this: Mary Jackson had the soul of an engineer.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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