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[proov] / pruv /


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"Women, minorities, people living at the margins and the poorest were the worst hit by this exercise because they're the ones who find it very difficult to produce documents which can prove their citizenship."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Gold could retest resistance at $4,200 per ounce if the current rebound continues, though the broader technical outlook remains bearish and resistance could prove difficult to break.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But investors don’t need to abandon tech names — in fact, bailing on the sector now could prove to be an expensive mistake, especially as a valuation reset provides cheap entry points.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

That’s how you can best prove your point, right?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

And now Allun, too, was to climb the Mountain Trying yet again to prove himself a worthy citizen of Rin.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Broadcasters have ramped up experiments with format, style and tone - Disney+ even had a dog on set during their coverage - but perhaps unsurprisingly, not every idea proves to be successful.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

"We will, in short, ensure any attack against any ally proves utterly futile."

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The aftermath is anything but simple, and that “Promising Young Woman” is so vexing only proves there is no easy way to make sense of the senseless.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

All that name-calling really proves is that one person disagrees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The idea of ‘common sense’ either proves too much or too little.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The pants, made from stiffer denim, proved to be slightly easier, and the robot finished the task in a little over a minute.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

"The playground was just an asphalt strip between two rows of prefab buildings," he said, adding meetings with education authorities proved pointless.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

And the Milwaukee Brewers proved they weren’t just some plucky underdog anymore, as they felled a giant on their way to the World Series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

When both were scored for accuracy by a different group of assessors who didn’t know which translation was which, neither proved to be error-free.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

The fourth and fifth games almost proved to him that he was experiencing some decline, or an accumulation of rust: He lost both.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Speaking outside court, Ali said: "The harm is already done. The smears leave their stench, even when proven to be false."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The results suggest that changing how immune cells process energy could make existing immunotherapy strategies more effective, although the approach has not yet been proven in patients.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

“He’s proven that to us. He had the greatest game I’ve ever seen played by an individual player last year against us.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The fate of these women and their children has proven a sticking point for the Western countries from where some originated, with many trapped or stripped of their citizenship by their former homelands.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

By 1944, Italy—one of the three Axis powers—has surrendered, but Germany has proven much more formidable.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“With inflation proving persistent and the possibility of further Fed rate increases, near-term returns may depend more heavily on carry,” the strategists said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Southern California high school football games have been used as a proving ground for years and a first stop for officials wanting to move to college and the NFL.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Because the research relied on survey responses, the results demonstrate associations rather than proving that these habits directly improve psychological flexibility or resilience.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Hartnett stands out among the roster of stubborn, uncompromisingly masculine leading men from his heyday, proving that there’s much more to winning over an audience than simply playing into the public’s perception.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Three lessons on, Apparition was proving as difficult as ever, though a few more people had managed to Splinch themselves.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling


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