prove justified
Frequency: 6.850.1 per million words
To be shown to be correct or reasonable by later events.
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Examples (10)
- The suspicion proved amply justified.
- Their initial fears proved entirely justified when the market crashed.
- Over time, her controversial decision proved to be fully justified.
- His predictions about the company's success proved justified by the end of the fiscal year.
- The extraordinary measures taken by the government proved perfectly justified in curbing the pandemic.
- We hoped our efforts would prove justified by the positive outcome.
- Only time would tell if his extreme caution would prove justified.
- The manager's skepticism about the new project eventually proved justified.
- Her long-held beliefs about healthy eating have proved increasingly justified.
- Does the expense of this research prove justified by its potential benefits?