How to Use prove out in a Sentence

prove out

verb
  • All of that should be on the table to prove out the allegations in the SARS reports.
    ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • How long those fixes will take to invent and prove out is unclear.
    WIRED, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Wu says that for him, the key value of the study comes in proving out the high pluripotency of the stem cells that scientists use in the lab.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The company will use the money to continue proving out the market.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
  • The first is to prove out this idea of continuous update ability.
    Ashton Nichols, Dallas News, 9 July 2020
  • The length of the mission, breadth of the orbits and speed of the return are all extremes to prove out the capacity of the Orion capsule to support future human flight.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Some of that newer distribution has proven out, like podcasting; some of it is Roblox.
    Nilay Patel, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
  • That accounting trick has been easier to prove out on paper than in practice.
    Gregory Barber, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In order for that to happen, though, the shop’s team will have to prove out the crowdfunding model—far from a sure thing, with only 13 percent of the total raised for the Asheville location.
    Steve Larese, Outside Online, 17 Aug. 2022
  • DeCosta is fond of saying the Ravens can never have too many cornerbacks and that proved out last season with a slew of injuries, including to Humphrey.
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2024
  • It was supposed to prove out a dream that smaller, modular designs can make splitting atoms to boil water and push turbines with steam much cheaper.
    WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That sudden financial burden would prove out of reach for most Americans.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Instead, the company would prove out misconduct that happened outside of the platform.
    Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Space tourism in recent years has sparked a wave of interest from the ultra-wealthy and investors as a growing field of space companies prove out hardware and ramp up uncrewed test flights in and around space.
    Joey Roulette, The Verge, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The nonprofit Nature Conservancy is trying to prove out the concept of solar fields on former mine sites.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • Satellite connectivity is now shipping in all new iPhones, but Apple still hasn’t proven out demand for the service.
    Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The models used to calculate the number of people who would need hospitalization were based on assumptions that didn’t prove out.
    Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 15 June 2020
  • This collaboration proved out the concept: Rossi produced three other gardening tools on the table in front of Hunt: a five-claw hand rake, a large garden trowel and a trenching tool.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 25 May 2024
  • Both companies have work to do in proving out the technology to store and transfer these propellants, but both have already been partnering with NASA.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023
  • Google searches prove out that 322 isn’t even a particularly common number.
    Eric Litke, USA TODAY, 17 June 2020
  • Their aim with this round of funding is to further prove out product-market fit, as well as test the viability of their business model by winning over brands’ internal finance teams.
    Frederick Daso, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Reaching them would require more sophisticated drilling, which could make economic sense if pilot studies prove out, Hasan says.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • The goal is to prove out technologies that federal scientists believe have good odds of success, Canary Media’s Julian Spector reports.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Often what slows down medical research is not a lack of understanding of genes or proteins, but an inability to find people who are willing to sign up for the studies researchers need to know if their hunches will prove out.
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Because global climate models are insufficiently detailed to describe the ocean near the coast, researchers constructed a special model to prove out their idea.
    Steven Koonin, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The website and illusion of a seamless digital transaction kept current users on the platform and brought others to it, which helped the company achieve network effects, prove out its concept, and simultaneously build out the platform as intended.
    Seth Joseph, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Its primary purpose was to prove out technologies necessary for precision landings.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And what does this moment mean for corporations committed to taking the long view—to making investments to address firm-specific and systemic risks in an uncertain business environment, investments that will only prove out in time?
    Quartz, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That includes ramping up testing facilities on and off-ship, ensuring its personnel are free of coronavirus and then performing at least one test sailing to simulate an actual cruise and prove out its ability to sail safely.
    Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The pilot facility aims to prove out Fabric8Labs’ ability to economically 3D print very complex parts, especially using copper, for its top target markets, which include semiconductor heat sinks and radio frequency antenna parts.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2023

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