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support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
The stories and claims were born out by the evidence
How To Use bear out In A Sentence
- The colour will bear out soon.
- Still, I think the figures bear out that these books appropriately belonged on a lusted for list. A Progressive on the Prairie » The year in books — by the numbers » Print
- Further data seems to suggest either other increases or at least inconclusive evidence to bear out the doomsday theory. Times, Sunday Times
- Sadly, as I shall explain, the facts do not bear out the interpretation given to them by the Foreign Secretary.
- The rail operations bear out my point about the unpredictable nature of that franchise system. Times, Sunday Times
- Tonight, this involves trying to coax a malnourished bear out of a cave. Times, Sunday Times
- I hope that the following pages will bear out that assumption.
- The figures would seem to bear out the concerns that, with some two-thirds of personal insolvency individuals declaring themselves bankrupt, it has become much more of a lifestyle choice.
- Tonight, this involves trying to coax a malnourished bear out of a cave. Times, Sunday Times
- Also in England no man is commonly created baron except he may dispend of yearly revenues a thousand pounds, or so much as may fully maintain and bear out his countenance and port. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)