How to Use bear out in a Sentence

bear out

verb
  • These hopes would not be borne out.
    — Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And borne out by your book here?
    — NBC news, 26 Oct. 2025
  • So he’s born out of all of that stuff.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026
  • The proof began to bear out in just half a decade.
    — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 15 Jan. 2026
  • That lack of awareness is borne out in the data.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 2 Apr. 2026
  • It was born out of a crushing defeat.
    — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Hip-hop is certainly one that were born out of protest.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • That's born out in election results this year, too.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 6 Dec. 2025
  • The following months bore out her views.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Their fears are borne out by statistics.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2026
  • After all, the best homes are born out of slowness rather than speed.
    — Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That instinct is born out in research.
    — Kate Ruder, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • It was borne out of the idea of skin care and art as self-expression.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The numbers bear out this erasure.
    — Naomi Jackson, Curbed, 11 Feb. 2026
  • These predictions were not borne out.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • And the alarm that retail experts sounded did in fact bear out.
    — Kiri Masters, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The idea for the project was born out of curiosity.
    — Paul Skrbina, The Tennessean, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Ours is a partnership born out of dispute, but no less strong for it.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • To an extent, data bears out the idea that these crackdowns tail off.
    — Cerys Jones, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This finding was also borne out in our survey.
    — Charli Carpenter, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025
  • That trend is borne out in federal court rulings.
    — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 18 May 2026
  • For now, the results of switching off that aid doesn't bear out such concerns.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • This friction is borne out by broader research.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • This was borne out at Monday night’s Gotham Awards.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Like all post-war subcultures, goth was born out of a need to rage against the machine.
    — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
  • But that doesn't bear out in public perception.
    — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The House of Windsor was born out of conflict.
    — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • So much borne out of his genius and his reputation and his body of work.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The Spaghetti sound was born out of a fusion of the two cultures.
    — Ivan Kashinsky, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Every book is born out of love, every story told for a reason.
    — Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025

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