BEARING OUT Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

bearing out

verb

present participle of bear out

as in verifying

to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of the newly discovered papers bore out the rumors about the president's personal life

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Customers who aren't Caniac Club members can join by visiting any location and requesting a Caniac Club card, then registering and verifying their email address.

— Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 25 July 2026
Audits conducted in every state uncovered numerous non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses that remained valid long after an immigrant’s work permits had expired or were issued without properly verifying their citizenship status.

— Josh Funk, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of verifying

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Comfortable feedback is confirming feedback, and confirming feedback is what got you here.

— Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
The proof-of-principle experiment conducted by the Los Alamos National Laboratory achieved high-temperature, zero-power criticality, confirming the reactor’s core physics without generating electricity.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 31 July 2026

Definition of confirming

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On July 28, Mark Zuckerberg published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal arguing that superintelligence should be distributed as widely as possible and that concentrating it in a handful of institutions is the greatest risk AI poses to humanity.

— Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
That was, frankly, ridiculous, and our coverage said as much, arguing that this deep dive into one of Hollywood’s most notorious genre disasters deserved a much wider release.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 July 2026

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Kenneth Dale Richardson was arrested by Lewisville police in the 1200 block of northbound Interstate Highway 35 East after a witness called to report a reckless driver, according to an affidavit supporting the arrest.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 July 2026
There’s no new scientific information supporting that the virus might instead have leaked from a laboratory, a theory Paul champions.

— Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

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