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prove
verb as in establish facts; put to a test
Strongest matches
confirm, convince, demonstrate, determine, explain, find, justify, result, show, substantiate, test, try, turn out, validate, verify
Strong matches
affirm, analyze, ascertain, assay, attest, authenticate, back, certify, check, corroborate, declare, document, evidence, evince, examine, experiment, fix, manifest, settle, sustain, testify, uphold, warrant, witness
Weak matches
add up, bear out, end up, have a case, make evident, pan out, show clearly, show once and for all, trial
Example Sentences
This doesn’t necessarily mean the market is in for a catastrophic collapse, but it does mean it has increasingly been at risk of a pullback, even if it proves to be minor.
The Fed cut interest rates by 1 percentage point at the last three meetings of 2024 before standing pat amid concerns inflation might be proving sticky.
Donations triggered by purchases have proven tricky for businesses before, said Waters, the consultant.
And then he buckled down to insist that this brouhaha around his comments only proved that Islamophobia runs wild in New York.
That’s why the U.S. needs a long view that begins with a rebuilt bipartisan consensus around our approach to China and recognizes that neither a go-it-alone strategy nor a policy of accommodation has proved effective.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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