From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbear somebody/sth↔ out phrasal verbPROVEif facts or information bear out a claim, story, opinion etc, they help to prove that it is true SYN support Evidence bears out the idea that students learn best in small groups. → bear→ See Verb table
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bear out• A later and quite definitive study conducted by Miller between 1973 and 1978 bore this out.• But that is what Jim believed, and as a biologist he suspected that science might one day bear him out.• Multicompany studies bear these findings out.• Persistent conflicts of interest, resulting in periodic political and economic crises, bear this out.• The nature of Christmas spend would seem to bear this out.• The story of the pithead baths bears him out.• One of the bears stepped out over the rim of the ruins and waved its paws.• Tests using Auto cad bore this out with an overall 55% increase in shade operations falling to 16% in subtract operations. 