bear out
Example Sentences
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State budget projections are based on assumptions about the future that often don’t bear out, leaving his choices exposed to criticism that he went too far, didn’t do enough, and everything in between.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
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
And it’s possible that this further research, with more women included, will bear out the impressive benefits of rapamycin for fertility.
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2024
Will followed the great bear out onto the dark mountainside.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
