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as in demonstrated
to show the existence or truth of by evidence
the prosecutor used DNA evidence to prove the defendant's guilt
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as in emerged
to come to be
the new automobile engine design proved impractical
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as in established
to gain full recognition or acceptance of
proved herself a great actress on the Broadway stage
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Recent Examples of proved
Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
The court fights all proved futile, however.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre not only spawned a franchise (with nine feature films, to date) but proved massively influential on horror in the decades to come.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
Sahm’s equation has proved invaluable.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
Recently, Katie Holmes proved the hypothesis true, stepping out in a supremely elegant take on classic flats that's guaranteed to have a popularity surge come spring.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 31 Jan. 2026
The change proved too much for Alex, who soon returned to his dad.
—Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
But occupational therapy proved tougher.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
If anything, Amorim proved too defiantly wedded to his own ‘way’, a 3-4-2-1 system which had to force-fit players into unnatural roles.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
The next morning proved her prescient.
—Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
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Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark may advise their listeners to not talk to strangers, but in their case, doing so proved transformative.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
The court fights all proved futile, however.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
Below are the 14 products that proved themselves again and again—all from Amazon.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre not only spawned a franchise (with nine feature films, to date) but proved massively influential on horror in the decades to come.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
Sahm’s equation has proved invaluable.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
Recently, Katie Holmes proved the hypothesis true, stepping out in a supremely elegant take on classic flats that's guaranteed to have a popularity surge come spring.
—Annie Blackman, InStyle, 31 Jan. 2026
The change proved too much for Alex, who soon returned to his dad.
—Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
But occupational therapy proved tougher.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
If anything, Amorim proved too defiantly wedded to his own ‘way’, a 3-4-2-1 system which had to force-fit players into unnatural roles.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
The next morning proved her prescient.
—Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for proved
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With his signing, Inter Miami gets a proven scorer who will add firepower to an attack that includes Messi, Tadeo Allende, Mateo Silvetti, Telasco Segovia, and 39-year-old Uruguayan legend Luis Suarez, who signed a contract for a final season.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
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Abraham is a proven Premier League goalscorer and arrives at a Villa side who are having a great season.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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By contrast, as a 2006 study from PNAS demonstrated, signature whistles serve the sole purpose of encoding identity information that other dolphins can recognize, even when stripped of individual voice characteristics.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Islamic Republic has demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to project and absorb pain.—
Davood Moradian,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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When censorship finally began to ease in the 1990s, Korean filmmakers emerged with a profound understanding of cinematic storytelling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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There’s Orient Express, which has re-emerged as a modern luxury brand under Accor and LVMH.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, established in 1987, lists worldwide suicide bereavement support groups as a public service to loss survivors.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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But the center re-established his dominance against the smaller Warriors on Monday, finishing with 15 points and 17 rebounds while serving as a significant deterrent on the defensive interior.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
27 Jan. 2026
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Co-developed and co-directed by Jeremy Ohringer and Amelia Hefferon, original music was written by Ethan Korvne and Emily Hayman, and assistant directed by Aidan McGuire, a senior directing and dramaturgy major.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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Third, building bridges, not barriers, between developed and developing economies, the public and private sectors, and climate urgency and economic growth.—
Vaishali Nigam Sinha,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The company laid off 50,000 people in 1993, when chip technology evolved and the tech industry moved away from large mainframe computers.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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Native plants have evolved to thrive in your climate, meaning less maintenance on your part.—
Michelle Mastro,
Martha Stewart,
31 Jan. 2026
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For Proust—who may have met Wilde and even been the subject of the older man’s amorous attention (though accounts of their meeting or meetings could be apocryphal)—his downfall showed that life featured far keener sorrows than those encountered in books.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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An app on her phone showed the brothers’ locations in the same place — down to the cross street — as the reported shooting.—
Sophia Peyser,
CNN Money,
2 Feb. 2026
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No Man's Sky's dogfighting model is notable for its shift from the simple, arcade combat present at launch to the more advanced systems in the game now.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Subran estimated that if China were to raise its household disposable-income share in GDP from the current 58% towards the 70% to 75% range observed in advanced economies, private consumption could rise by around 10 percentage points in GDP.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Proved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proved. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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