establish
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While they identified a relationship between food insufficiency and sports gambling, they noted that direct causation for such a large issue is difficult to establish.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
His plan has been for Israel to pull back gradually, letting the Lebanese army come in and establish control in areas that will grow, they said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
In their original bid book, the three prospective host nations unveiled a preliminary estimate of 3.6m tonnes of CO2e, referencing hopes that it would "establish new standards for environmental sustainability in sport".
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
One month of data can’t definitively establish a trend, or answer whether the present cohort of first-time buyers are particularly wealthy, Yun notes.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
The intellectual apparatus of the new science—facts, experiments, theories, laws of nature, evidence—did not establish its worth by philosophical arguments; its success depended upon the fact that, in practice, it produced good results.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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