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"To turn out to be feasible, accurate, true, satisfactory, as expected, hoped, stated, etc."
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"(intransitive) To turn out to be feasible, accurate, true, satisfactory, as expected, hoped, stated, etc."
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"ref": "2007 April 16, Les Johnson, Nell Boyce (reporter), “Space Tethers: Slinging Objects in Orbit?”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9574513",
"text": "Not that we’re afraid of things new. It’s just, before you put ’em on a system, they’ve gotta be demonstrated and proven and you’ve gotta have a lot of confidence in ’em. And we’re still in the stages where we're proving this out."
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