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But if you'll call on me to bear you out from the book, I will.

It'll be interesting to see if the music bears these stories out.

The response to the first season of shows appears to bear her out.

If someone else will bear you out, that would be different.

But the historical record simply does not bear this out.

"One which certainly seems to be borne out by our present situation."

However, recent evidence does not appear to bear this out.

I think we give a great service and the numbers bear this out.

However, further analysis of the data does not seem to bear that out.

The evidence overall just does not bear it out at all.