bear out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Statistics on their par-saving success bear out their confidence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
The witches are thus active instruments in the fate that befalls Macbeth, making him somewhat more of a puppet of their otherworldly mischief than a closer reading of the text might bear out.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
But the data don’t bear out the footage, Powell said, though he couldn’t say with absolute certainty that the fire was not caused by Edison lines.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025
Studies bear out the various health benefits of money.
From Slate • Jan. 1, 2025
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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