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But director Matthew Brown, who also co-adapted St. Germain’s 2010 play, has fallen for the regrettable, rarely well-proved view that movies should “open up” plays with flashbacks and subplots.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

A modern air force must have more than well-proved airplanes.

From Time Magazine Archive

To invade Syria with the forces available from the Middle East Command�in face of the Nazis' well-proved winged might�was risk enough.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lenin recognized clearly that genetics is no theory; it is a well-proved science whose techniques are enormously superior to the hit-or-miss methods used by pre-genetic plant-and-animal breeders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether Geirald was right or not in thinking that the so-called page was really a well-proved knight, it is certain that Rosald's task was a very hard one.

From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew