From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishliving proofliving proofEXAMPLEif someone is living proof of a particular fact, they are a good example of how true it isliving proof (that) I’m living proof that you don’t need a college degree to be successful.living proof of the living proof of government economic incompetence → living
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living proof• Indeed, she may well be living proof of it.• And the living proof of that was Emily.• We know that English and French speakers can live together in Canada - Montreal is living proof of that.• The team is living proof of the old saying that it's not whom you play that counts, but when you play them.• I would be-come the living proof of the strength of her womanhood.• She is living proof that a Democrat can be an honorable attorney general in a scandal-prone Democratic administration.• He is living proof that if the famine doesn't get you, the bullets will.• I'm living proof that people can make their dreams come true.• She is also living proof that stress and hard work need not necessarily be ageing.• I will remember them as living proof that you can have too much of a good thing.• Jordan is living proof that you don't have to conform to the music industry's standards in order to be accepted. 