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  1. Help to indicate or serve as evidence. For example, His research goes to show that the medication is ineffective. This term was first recorded in 1842.


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It also might go to show the gem the Cougs pulled over the Idaho border in Jones.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

People who are Muslim and Hindu still go to show him respect, and I think that is so telling.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

Doesn’t all this go to show that we should prevent or squelch worry as soon as possible?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

As UBS's Malcolm says, it might just go to show that crypto was meant to be more "an evolutionary than a revolutionary development in financial markets."

From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2022

Once I’ve done three, maybe four passes back and forth, I use the portable hanging scale to weigh it, and then I go to show Mom my haul.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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