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prove
verb as in establish facts; put to a test
Strongest matches
confirm, convince, demonstrate, determine, explain, find, justify, result, show, substantiate, test, try, turn out, validate, verify
Strong matches
affirm, analyze, ascertain, assay, attest, authenticate, back, certify, check, corroborate, declare, document, evidence, evince, examine, experiment, fix, manifest, settle, sustain, testify, uphold, warrant, witness
Weak matches
add up, bear out, end up, have a case, make evident, pan out, show clearly, show once and for all, trial
Example Sentences
They also asked those advisers how they invested their own money and how they invested their clients’ money, questions that proved important.
These construction strategies proved remarkably successful, persisting for more than half a billion years with little need for change.
Rees-Zammit suffered a toe injury in his fourth game for the Bears, but proved his fitness to earn selection on Wales' bench for the autumn opener.
Few Wall Street analysts have forecast a quick end to the investment wave, but some are warning that current assumptions of spending will prove to be unsustainable.
The Senegalese winger's talent is taken for granted now, but he had to work hard to prove himself before landing a spot in a Premier League starting line-up.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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