bear out

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

Montagna said Fish and Wildlife took the lead on escorting the bear out of the zoo and back into the woods.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 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