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
After weeks of unsuccessfully setting out caramel- and cherry-flavored bait and noisemakers in the hopes of flushing the bear out, it seemed like all of the efforts had paid off last week.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2025
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
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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