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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

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

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

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2024

Will followed the great bear out onto the dark mountainside.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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