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Example Sentences
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“Investors no longer seem to take his statements at face value — if anything, they’re beginning to trade against them, waiting for tangible proof before reacting.”
From MarketWatch
The term implies there’s unchallengeable proof for a claim when there isn’t.
As proof, they point to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the juggernaut whose back-to-back titles and record-setting payrolls have turned them into the proxy for all of MLB’s supposed problems.
He sent proof: a smiling selfie in front of a sea of blossoms.
From Los Angeles Times
At this stage, MultiQ-IT is not yet a finished commercial product but rather a proof of concept showing what is achievable.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
