demonstrate
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Schiff said the new data further demonstrate “the urgent need to act and pass a federal film tax proposal to stop the exodus of production to other countries offering more competitive incentives.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Jack said that being asked to go was a "great feeling" and "a real opportunity to demonstrate everything that you've learned".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Candidates must also show "understanding" of social rules and demonstrate expected pension benefits equivalent to someone who has paid pension insurance for 30 years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
"This suggests that they are detecting the particle motion associated with sound even at considerable distances from the source -- something we have not previously been able to demonstrate in free-swimming sharks."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Mrs. Clarke gave a little shiver, to demonstrate.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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Creating digital content for social media to back up a career in stand-up demonstrates that success is completely within the control of comics, she continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The research also demonstrates why studying shark hearing in the ocean can reveal information that is difficult to obtain in laboratory tanks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
"When I joined police 15 months ago they said to be ready for anything, so I guess this demonstrates that's true!" said Constable Taylor, who escorted the pup.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The governing body's chief executive, Christian Milz, said the decision "demonstrates our commitment" to competitors who are "at the heart of our sport".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
There’s pride in it, because it demonstrates how extreme and therefore justified it was, for me.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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The achievement demonstrated that homochirality could be created through a chemical reaction rather than being unique to living organisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The second method is more direct, similar to the one used by Hubble in the 1920s when he first demonstrated that the universe is expanding.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
As you have already demonstrated, retiring doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Adalah said Abu Shehadeh's decades of public life as a human rights activist, legislator and party leader demonstrated his "consistent and unequivocal opposition to violence of any kind".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people, as Alvaro demonstrated during one night of revels.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“Moneyball” excoriated the bunt, demonstrating in great detail that trading a precious out for an extra 90 feet on the base paths reduces scoring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Hernandez included email exchanges and invoices dating back to July, demonstrating that the MBA had been paying the necessary fees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
"The new prime minister can reform our laws so that communities are protected in coming together and demonstrating on the issues they care about. Will he do so?"
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Here are five charts and tables demonstrating rising prices influenced Americans’ budgets:
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
As Gey flew from one lab to another, demonstrating his culturing techniques and helping to set up new laboratories, he always flew with tubes of Henrietta’s cells in his breast pocket.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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