How to Use bear out in a Sentence

bear out

verb
  • That’s just a simple fact, borne out by all history and ignored at any investor’s peril.
    James Berman, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The Jerome Project was born out of a search in prison records for information about his father.
    Robert Daniels, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Curry misfired on a pair of open looks, but the spacing concerns of that combination bore out.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The husband tried to get the animals to leave, using a chair as a barrier between them while attempting to guide the adult bear out of the door.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • This is not borne out in the data: America’s obesity rates appear to have come down (or leveled off) more quickly for men in the past few years.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The inefficacy of Trump’s approach is borne out not only by macroeconomic readings but also by sector-by-sector data.
    Steven Tian, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Some of what was considered accurate early on was not borne out when more information became available, so a certain amount of latitude from reporting should be expected.
    Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Oct. 2024
  • This was borne out in the results from our tests as well.
    Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2023
  • It was borne out of the idea of skin care and art as self-expression.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The Epoch Times was born out of that leafleting campaign.
    Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • And the alarm that retail experts sounded did in fact bear out.
    Kiri Masters, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Like all post-war subcultures, goth was born out of a need to rage against the machine.
    Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
  • For now, the results of switching off that aid doesn't bear out such concerns.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Make no mistake: this is a crisis born out of weakness.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Like many great ventures, Alt Carbon was born out of a crisis.
    Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Yet the business plan for care.com was born out of that very experience.
    Gemma Allen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • So, Leonardo is this gay man born out of wedlock who is the greatest painter of all time in some people’s minds.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 23 June 2024
  • The numbers bear out the impression that the RS7 is playing a different game from the M5 and Blackwing.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The idea for the trip was born out of one of my favorite France memories, from back when my wife and I lived in Paris for two years in the early aughts.
    Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2024
  • According to their creation story, Navajos were born out of the same earth and stone.
    Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Fat Bear Week, where fans of the park’s bear cams can vote for the chubbiest bear out of a cast of cubs with names like Chunk, Holly and this year’s winner, 747.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
  • One of the series’ most iconic moments, their kiss in the Christmas episode, was born out of that spontaneity.
    Amber Dowling, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
  • But will that bear out as a worthwhile price compared to its performance?
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Maria, meanwhile, also had a secret — a child born out of wedlock.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But so far, Vance's analysis hasn't been borne out by the evidence.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
  • On top of that, the idea that the Telegraph Company was shortsighted and failed to see the potential of the telephone doesn’t seem to bear out.
    WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The years ahead would bear out the composer’s presentiments of tragedy.
    Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The group was born out of the frustration many Black women felt in 2020 over the poor treatment of the field of Black hopefuls Biden had been eyeing for his veep pick.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024
  • As viewers gather from its first episode, soul food was born out of Black people’s need for survival.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 7 July 2023
  • But as the Pentagon’s data bear out, that mind-set is not pervasive across all of the services.
    Max Hauptman and The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2021

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