proved

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"The boxing world knows my character, and Saturday night proved that without a shred of doubt," Wardley said on Sky Sports.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

But the team’s youth and inexperience proved to be a strength, not a weakness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

The framework proved to be “a delicately constructed Maginot Line against the perceived endless threat of deflation,” said John Cochrane, an economist at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

As ProPublica has reported, the tool proved highly error-prone.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

“I’d hypothesized it for a while, and the vet proved my theory two weeks ago,” I said.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas