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bear out

verb

  1. tr, adverb to show to be true or truthful; confirm

    the witness will bear me out

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Back up or confirm, as in The results bear out what he predicted , or His story bears me out exactly . [Late 1400s]
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It is a feeling partly borne out of the frustration and isolation of living in a hearing-centred world.

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Yet, you get the sense Pocehttino's desire to lead the US to the World Cup is genuine and not a mindset borne out of stipulations relating to his contract.

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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.

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California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials were able to lure that bear out using peanut butter and rotisserie chicken and relocate it to the Angeles National Forest.

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The figures for the year up to July 2025, a year on from the election, will be closely scrutinised to see if this trend and the pledge have been borne out.

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