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  • We want to establish our company as a leader in the industry.
    establish = set in reputation
  • As used in line 24, "rule" most nearly refers to an "established habit."
    established = existing
  • The rule is so well-established, it is no longer open to reasonable legal dispute.
    established = existing firmly
  • Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest college in the United States.
    established = started
  • "Old established firm," he volunteered.   (source)
    established = long-existing
  • "Tell me," he would say, "why have you placed this comma here? What relationship between these phrases are you hoping to establish?"   (source)
    establish = create
  • Salem had been established hardly forty years before.   (source)
    established = founded (started)
  • The slaveholders have been known to send in spies among their slaves, to ascertain their views and feelings in regard to their condition. The frequency of this has had the effect to establish among the slaves the maxim, that a still tongue makes a wise head.   (source)
    establish = create
  • Our school is one of the finest ever established.   (source)
    established = created
  • Lori could take it to New York and use it to get established, so that by the time I arrived, everything would be set.   (source)
    established = settled (firmly in place)
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  • Stories of cannibalism among castaways were so common that British sailors considered the practice of choosing and sacrificing a victim to be an established "custom of the sea."   (source)
    established = existing, or set in place
  • But while people were happy to talk to him, they preferred to send their children to established schools.   (source)
    established = long-successful
  • Perhaps the cancer has established a beachhead in his brain.   (source)
    established = created
  • Hortensia had given Esperanza her baths since she was a baby and they had an established routine.   (source)
    established = created and maintained
  • I can't move too quickly.... But I establish the slow hunter's tread I use when tracking game.   (source)
    establish = settle into
  • Contrary to common belief, however, the bus doesn't lie beneath any established flight path, and very few planes fly over it.   (source)
    established = standard (set in place)
  • Though Jonas had only become a Five the year that they acquired Lily and learned her name, he remembered the excitement, the conversations at home, wondering about her: how she would look, who she would be, how she would fit into their established family unit.   (source)
    established = existing
  • Challenging established authority.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months.   (source)
  • In the old and well-established code of dueling, it is understood that the number of paces the offender and offended take before shooting should be in inverse proportion to the magnitude of the insult.   (source)
    established = accepted
  • When my mother went to her sisters, they followed and established dominion over all our pliant cousins, hypnotized like minnows before the pike's mouth.   (source)
    established = created and maintained
  • To the established middle class of white Ohioans, these hillbillies simply didn't belong.   (source)
    established = long-existing
  • They were strong supporters of a movement to establish a Jewish state in Israel.   (source)
    establish = create
  • Us—a family of long-established, well-regarded merchants.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • By establishing himself as the protagonist of his own story, he inspired me and countless other young people to see ourselves as capable of taking control of our own destinies, and to realize how each decision we make determines the course of our life stories.   (source)
    establishing = setting in place
  • Only one important topic was not addressed: the establishing of alpha-omega relationships with major lifeboat pests.   (source)
    establishing = creating
  • He would not dare abolish a personal prelature established by a previous Pope!   (source)
    established = created
  • The Triwizard Tournament was first established some seven hundred years ago as a friendly competition between the three largest European schools of wizardry: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang.   (source)
    established = started
  • "A revolutionary council of the armed forces has been established, and our watan will now be known as the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan," Abdul Qader said.   (source)
    established = created
  • Bhutan, which under the 1865 Treaty of Sinchulu ceded border land to Britain; and Britain, which in exchange for that land provided Bhutan an annual subsidy, and under whose influence Bhutan's monarchy was established in 1907.   (source)
  • YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED A NEW RECORD.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • Business was excellent when Governor William Wyatt Bibb, with a view to promoting the newly created county's domestic tranquility, dispatched a team of surveyors to locate its exact center and there establish its seat of government.   (source)
    establish = create
  • As if every living thing rushes to establish a foothold before some cataclysm arrives.   (source)
    establish = create and maintain
  • He had tried in vain to establish a relationship with an alchemist.   (source)
    establish = create
  • For this was the Summer Session, just established to keep up with the pace of the war.   (source)
    established = created
  • As you must know, it would be unusual for us to publish a complete novella by an unknown writer, or for that matter a well-established one.   (source)
    established = set with a good reputation
  • New churches were established in the surrounding villages and a few schools with them.   (source)
    established = started
  • "As soon as circumstances allow, a tribunal will be established to determine whether you behaved honorably during Redd's reign or whether you are, in fact, guilty of war crimes," Alyss said.   (source)
    established = created
  • If I establish a link with NASA, I can talk to them by holding a page of text up to the lander's camera.   (source)
    establish = set in place
  • By August, Len wanted to establish some boundaries for his sake and for my father's.   (source)
  • From the first, they had established a communication that went far beyond words.   (source)
    established = created and maintained
  • In the early nineteenth century, a group of reformers set out to establish a system of public education in the United States.   (source)
    establish = create
  • The need for deceit was a bitter taste in his mouth, but Ned knew he must tread softly here, must keep his counsel and play the game until he was firmly established as regent.   (source)
    established = settled
  • Stoneman and Black drew forth their rulebooks, which also contained brief histories of the Firemen of America, and laid them out where Montag, though long familiar with them, might read: "Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies."   (source)
    established = founded (started)
  • Y. Matsuya and H. Green, "Somatic Cell Hybrid Between the Established Human Line D98 (presumptive HeLa) and 3T3," Science 163, no. 3868 (February 14, 1969)   (source)
    established = existing
  • This is the best proof we've had so far that many officers and generals are fed up with the war and would like to see Hitler sink into a bottomless pit, so they can establish a military dictatorship, make peace with the Allies, rearm themselves and, after a few decades, start a new war.   (source)
    establish = set in place
  • Almost none of them knew how to establish a direct line to the target, and when they reached the far wall few of the new ones had any idea how to catch on or even control their rebounds.   (source)
    establish = set
  • It had been stupid of me to write him a check —greediness on my part; I'd been thinking about establishing a lineage for the piece, though at this point even an envelope of cash placed under a napkin and slid across the table was no assurance he was going to let the matter drop.   (source)
    establishing = creating
  • The LEP had established a surface Op's HQ at E1:Tara.   (source)
    established = created
  • In 2004, fed up with rampant violence, more than 5,000 Tapachula residents marched in the streets demanding that Mexico establish a death penalty for gangsters.   (source)
    establish = create
  • In time, my grandfather and dad established relationships with coin dealers across the country, and my grandfather spent a fortune over the years trading up and improving the collection.   (source)
    established = created
  • A routine was soon established.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • They'd already established their own small base inside the camp by the time I arrived.   (source)
  • She depended heavily on the "king/queen system" which she established in our house long before I was born: the eldest sibling was the king or queen and you could not defy him or her, because you were a slave.   (source)
    established = started
  • But who'd have thought a five-year-old could establish communications with the Congolese?   (source)
    establish = set in place
  • North Carolina State was the first to offer Justin a football scholarship and, with direct private jet service established between Memphis and Raleigh, North Carolina State became, to Michael Oher, an appealing place to play football.   (source)
    established = created
  • Tying them up to give us more time to establish a new position wasn't an option.   (source)
    establish = set up
  • Her arrival at Jackson Middle preceded the breakup of two well-established couples, as well as marking the beginnings of a reputation built more on speculation and wishful thinking than truth, which had followed her since.   (source)
    established = settled
  • Holmes seemed to be repeating the pattern he had established in Cincinnati.   (source)
    established = started
  • The green-coated band had arrived and was established in a corner of the tennis-court.   (source)
    established = set up
  • A permanent trust fund for college scholarships had been established with a donation of one million dollars "from one of your former students."   (source)
    established = created
  • In between that calamity and this, they had visited George III in London, published a newspaper, made baskets, led Oglethorpe through forests, helped Andrew Jackson fight Creek, cooked maize, drawn up a constitution, petitioned the King of Spain, been experimented on by Dartmouth, established asylums, wrote their language, resisted settlers, shot bear and translated scripture.   (source)
  • They carried him out to a dry paddy, established security, and sat smoking the dead man's dope until the chopper came.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • She has established her space on the pavement.   (source)
  • The team regularly plays against high schools from Colorado Springs, which have well-established hockey programs.   (source)
    established = long-existing
  • Taking Perry's advice, he had founded hospitals, established orphanages and funded schools in his native Paris.   (source)
    established = created
  • But he established the vision, the tone.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • They had not established their position skilfully enough, or perhaps they were too thrifty.   (source)
    established = settled
  • Forgiveness does not establish relationship.   (source)
    establish = create
  • We want to establish a new society.   (source)
  • We have a bit of a routine established in just two weeks.   (source)
    established = settled
  • Florentino Ariza had met her at a time when she would have received any man who wanted to be with her, even if he were hired by the hour, and they had established a relationship that was more serious and longer-lived than would have seemed possible.   (source)
    established = created
  • He described how a second wave of crystallization, guided by analogies to established mathematics, produced what he later named the "Theta-Fuchsian Series."   (source)
    established = generally accepted
  • An air raid blackout signal system, details of which can be found elsewhere in this edition, was established.   (source)
    established = created
  • The "Old Covenant" between God and Israel had been replaced by the "New Covenant" which Jesus had established between God and mankind.   (source)
    established = set in place
  • Soon a rhythm was established, and it was thereafter rare that more than a few waking hours would pass without contact between them, and they found themselves in those early days of their romance growing hungry, touching each other, but without bodily adjacency, without release.   (source)
  • The director of the company wouldn't build it, however, and so at the age of twenty-two, in 1912, shortly after marrying, the Chairman left to establish his own company.   (source)
    establish = create
  • Some years before, I had established a code which never varied.   (source)
    established = created
  • Back in Haiti, he had established a piece of private language for our month of travel.   (source)
  • She was simply not very good at establishing contact with other people.   (source)
    establishing = creating
  • One of them, they explained, had been a fisherman on the coast; the other had been taken as a child to Sweden by his parents when the Soviets were established in Estonia.   (source)
    established = settled
  • Though dusk had established itself, Dick, doing a steady sixty miles an hour, was still driving without headlights, but then the road was straight, the country was as level as a lake, and other cars were seldom sighted.   (source)
  • She still had to fight to establish herself as a fair justice-her history as a public defender preceded her into her courtroom, and prosecutors assumed she'd side with the defense.   (source)
    establish = set in reputation
  • Because of this, we had established a good relationship with one of the most prosperous bankers in town.   (source)
    established = created
  • They worked on white farms and in white businesses, something that was looked down upon by the more established Xhosa tribes.   (source)
    established = settled; or set in place
  • They'd been arguing all morning, and had established a polite buffer of silence between them.   (source)
    established = created
  • An established inmate of Buchenwald told us that we should have a shower and then we could go into the blocks.   (source)
    established = already settled
  • He named himself Emperor and established his dynasty.   (source)
    established = started
  • Life had established itself in the monkey house.   (source)
    established = settled
  • Her established players frequently brought along new arrivals as well.   (source)
    established = familiar
  • He had been establishing his career then, of course, busy with his clinic—and his photography too—but really it was his guilt that had kept him distant.   (source)
    establishing = starting and putting on a firm footing
  • It's what often happens when vampyres drink directly from humans, especially if there is a bond that has been established between them prior to the blood-letting.   (source)
    established = created
  • The mills in which he was concerned were not earning as they should, so he was told; and there was discussion as to whether they be moved south, or a Southern mill be established which might be considered in the nature of a branch, and where the coarser grades of sheeting would be manufactured, as well as all the spinning done.   (source)
  • You have established a most worthwhile dream and goal for your life.   (source)
  • His reputation for candid thinking on race was already well established.   (source)
    established = set (firmly existing)
  • If the fire established itself on the tall steeple, the wind would spread firebrands over an even larger area.   (source)
    established = set
  • By now I felt like I was pretty firmly established in the Camp's social ecology.   (source)
    established = settled
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  • Can you establish her location on Monday morning?
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • Since we previously established that she was at work on Monday morning, we can eliminate her as a suspect.
    established = determined (figured out)
  • The sixth paragraph (lines 67-68) is primarily concerned with establishing the contrast between men and masculine traits.
    establishing = showing or demonstrating
  • I've asked my brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins, but I have not been able to definitively establish a timeline, and have therefore relied on my own memories.   (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?   (source)
    establish = prove
  • And besides, testimony has already established that the red fibers could have been transferred from Miss Clark's clothing to those of Mr. Andrews prior to the night of October 29 to 30.   (source)
    established = proven
  • Unfortunately, she gave herself away. In the eyes. They were agitated. She knew the exact moment when Viktor Chemmel established that the book was a prize possession.
    "I'll tell you what," he said. "For fifty marks, you can have it back."   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • There are a number of ways to establish someone's approximate survival expectations without actually asking.   (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • This is one of the many examples of the men missing in action erroneously reported and later being established as a lie.   (source)
    established = shown or proven
  • Evidence unearthed by the forty-odd expeditions sent to search for them eventually established that all had perished, the victims of scurvy, starvation, and unspeakable suffering.   (source)
    established = showed
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  • At any rate, having firmly established that either approach might be the right one, the author proceeded to his second meditation: "Of Sadness."   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • When these townships were established, Afrikaners, or whites of Dutch ancestry, made up 9 percent of the population.   (source)
    established = created
  • Nonetheless, establishing Christ's divinity was critical to the further unification of the Roman empire and to the new Vatican power base.   (source)
    establishing = demonstrating
  • It was unheard of to indict someone for perjury without any investigation or compelling evidence to establish that a false statement had been made.   (source)
    establish = show
  • Harry, we need to establish whether Sirius really has left Headquarters.   (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • I've already established it's plenty to keep the rover warm.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • Three Scotches later, Aria and Ezra had established that they'd both met the same old sailor bartender at the Borg bar in Reykjavik, loved the way bathing in the mineral-rich blue lagoon hot springs made them feel sleepy, and actually liked the rotten-egg sulfur smell of the geothermal hot spring water.   (source)
    established = learned
  • And besides, she'd like to know what kind of studies had established that the youngest daughter and not the eldest is best suited to care for their mother.   (source)
    established = shown
  • DANFORTH—(his first real outburst, in which his contempt for Parris is clear): Mr. Parris, I bid you be silent! (He stands in silence, looking out the window. Now, having established that he will set the gait.) Mr. Cheever, will you go into the court and bring the children here?   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • You grown … we done established that.   (source)
    established = accepted as true
  • There, lawyers could use the Nuremberg Code to establish whether a scientist was acting within the ethical boundaries of the profession.   (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • You have two hours to get footage showing the damage from the bombing, establish that Thirteen's military unit remains not only functional but dominant, and, most important, that the Mockingjay is still alive.   (source)
    establish = show
  • Your Honor, while no direct corroboration has yet been made, the minor has an established pattern of extreme dysfunctional behavior.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or known
  • In a single play Michael Oher had established himself as too rich for the blood of Southern Miss.   (source)
    established = proven
  • Slowly, during the course of the day, we established there was a small American base two miles away.   (source)
    established = learned
  • I think we've established that I'm not very good at trigonometry.   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • I established the fact that Nancy had been in the habit of selling her employer's cast-off garments to the servants, with or without her master's permission; so McDermott could have come by his Shirt of Nessus honestly enough.   (source)
  • He concluded: "It is something that only God can do, of course, but in any event it would be good to have it established in theoretical terms."   (source)
  • It's proper to begin with the regular facts, but after a rule is established beyond all doubt, the facts in conformity with it become dull because they no longer teach us anything new.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proved
  • These two sentences establish fairly unequivocally what he was alluding to.   (source)
    establish = demonstrate
  • The scenes diverged from established fact, however, and immersed him in imaginary situations constructed piecemeal from fragments of what had actually been.   (source)
    established = known
  • Having established premeditation of great degree, Green left the witness to the ministrations of the defense.   (source)
    established = proven
  • We had already established that our hometowns in Kentucky were separated by only two counties, and that we had both been to the exact same Bob Seger concert at the Kentucky State Fair my senior year.   (source)
    established = learned
  • In examining the income gap between black and white adults—it is well established that blacks earn significantly less—scholars have found that the gap is virtually eradicated if the blacks' lower eighth-grade test scores are taken into account.   (source)
    established = known or proven
  • Idle gossip had hardened into established fact.   (source)
    established = accepted as true
  • By his sophomore year, Oscar had established himself as a standout student leader.   (source)
    established = proven
  • Men like Hungry Joe glowered at him with blameful hatred, and Appleby subjected him to vindictive discourtesy now that he had established himself as a hot pilot and a ping-pong player who never lost a point.   (source)
    established = proven or demonstrated
  • The exam of the ECFMG—Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates—established that I had the knowledge and credentials to pursue postgraduate training in America.   (source)
    established = determined
  • The morning session dragged on with stultifying dullness, and it didn't take long to establish that Herschel had accomplished little and taken few chances in his career.   (source)
    establish = show
  • Other names-MIAs established as never having been in combat … eight investigating personnel from the inspector general's office.   (source)
    established = found (proved)
  • That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of yours as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proved
  • No test had established the fact, nor had he sought one.   (source)
    established = proven
  • It was established that we were neither of us outlaws.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • I think we have established in so many ways that I am hot enough for the both of us.   (source)
    established = determined or seen
  • The tabloids have firmly established that she is a substance abuser.   (source)
    established = shown
  • It is, I believe, an established fact that women don't go for that stuff about the mind.   (source)
    established = known or proven
  • But so great a claim will need to be established and clear proofs will be required, should this Aragorn ever come to Minas Tirith.   (source)
    established = proved
  • General Isham, you will kindly keep your mind and your words to the established facts.   (source)
    established = known or accepted
  • Still, she got there, we've established that.   (source)
    established = proven or shown
  • I had read quite a bit about sexual problems while studying at that noted athenaeum of psychology, Duke University, and had come away with some fairly well established facts: that male primates in captivity, for instance, when denied female companionship, will try to bugger each other, often with gleeful success, and that many prisoners after long periods of incarceration will turn so readily to homosexual activity that it will almost appear to be the norm.   (source)
    established = known to be true
  • ...it is established ... that...   (source)
    established = known or proven
  • Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.   (source)
    established = proven
  • "We've established that."†   (source)
    established = proven or shown
  • Once you've established that a book—a man's book at that, a war book—is borrowing a situation from Lewis Carroll's Alice books, anything is possible.†   (source)
  • So we have established that we cannot use reason as a yardstick for how we ought to act.†   (source)
  • "We've established that."†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND Look, I've established that Mr. Sillers isn't working very hard at religion.†   (source)
  • We have now dealt with the second killing, and have established the fact that no one of us can be completely exonerated from suspicion.   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • And at once this possibility became an established certainty: John had refused to come because he didn't like her.   (source)
    established = proven
  • That does not seem to us to have been clearly established.   (source)
    established = proven or demonstrated
  • The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are "Real" while the spiritual elements are "subjective"; in all experiences which can discourage or corrupt them the spiritual elements are the main reality and to ignore them is to be an escapist.   (source)
    established = accepted as true
  • The Mary Dalton kidnapping case was dramatically cracked wide open when a group of local newspaper reporters accidentally discovered several bones, later positively established as those of the missing heiress, in the furnace of the Dalton home late today.   (source)
    established = proven
  • Here what had to be established was whether I was qualified in pocket to mix with the sons of established fathers.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • All those things you have established in regard to morality, you and your ailing compatriot—do you seriously suppose they surprise me?   (source)
    established = shown or proved
  • When he had thus established himself as a person unemotional and interested only in business, he sauntered out.   (source)
    established = proven or demonstrated
  • I was able to establish the identity of the man and the woman and knew at last exactly how I stood.   (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
  • ...the strange enervating conviction that her seducer confronted her, which had been gaining ground in Tess ever since she had heard his words distinctly, was at last established as a fact indeed.   (source)
    established = shown
  • But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proved
  • But he must go to the consul's in person, so as to establish his identity.   (source)
    establish = prove
  • The living organism has the power of rapidly adapting itself, growing accustomed and inured to any atmosphere whatever, otherwise man would be bound to feel at every moment what an irrational basis there often is underlying his rational activity, and how little of established truth and certainty there is even in work so responsible and so terrible in its effects as that of the teacher, of the lawyer, of the writer….   (source)
    established = firmly known
  • Without disputing a truth so momentous, we must be allowed to consider this version of Mr. Dimmesdale's story as only an instance of that stubborn fidelity with which a man's friends—and especially a clergyman's—will sometimes uphold his character, when proofs, clear as the mid-day sunshine on the scarlet letter, establish him a false and sin-stained creature of the dust.   (source)
    establish = show
  • So convinced I was of that woman's being her mother, that I wanted no evidence to establish the fact in my own mind.   (source)
    establish = prove
  • Now and then that sort of enthusiasm finds a far-echoing voice that comes from an experience springing out of the deepest need; and it was by being brought within the long lingering vibrations of such a voice that Maggie, with her girl's face and unnoted sorrows, found an effort and a hope that helped her through years of loneliness, making out a faith for herself without the aid of established authorities and appointed guides; for they were not at hand, and her need was pressing.   (source)
    established = proven
  • The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples had not been circumstantially proved.   (source)
    established = showed
  • Still, we can hypothesize, even if we cannot prove and establish.   (source)
    establish = demonstrate fact
  • Even say we firmly established by medical evidence the presumption of a mind disordered by fever, ...   (source)
    established = proved
  • Marriage is a civil affair in France, and in order to marry in an orthodox manner you must have papers which undeniably establish your identity.   (source)
    establish = prove
  • I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.   (source)
    establish = determine or understand
  • The results of schools, founded for them by benevolent individuals in Cincinnati, fully establish this.   (source)
    establish = demonstrate
  • He sat bent in feebleness, and apparently unconscious of the presence he was in, during the whole of that opening scene, in which the skill of the scout had been so clearly established.   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • His countenance, voice, and manner had established him at once in the possession of every virtue.   (source)
    established = shown
  • The principle of equality may be established in civil society, without prevailing in the political world.   (source)
    established = accepted as true
  • That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proved
  • But granted a prince who has established himself as above, who can command, and is a man of courage, undismayed in adversity, who does not fail in other qualifications, and who, by his resolution and energy, keeps the whole people encouraged—such a one will never find himself deceived in them, and it will be shown that he has laid his foundations well.   (source)
    established = proven
  • It occurred to me," Fiedler continued after a slight pause, "that you could still help us to establish whether any of that money was ever drawn.†   (source)
  • It is established, I think, that there is a possibility of such a thing as I have outlined occurring.   (source)
    established = known or proven
  • Your knowledge, or lack thereof, has been established in the quizzes you've taken this semester.   (source)
    established = demonstrated
  • Once we'd been in each room and established we were alone, I felt as safe as I did at home.   (source)
    established = determined or seen
  • This latter is an expression that establishes the sufficiency of Scripture among literal believers.   (source)
    establishes = proves
  • When there were only two pieces left to draw, it was established to whom they belonged.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • Among other things, the major here established the fact that she did go to the Canadian consulate.   (source)
    established = proved
  • That will have to be established by the investigation.   (source)
    established = determined or proven
  • This is all supposing that she knew him, which is not firmly established.   (source)
    established = demonstrated or proved
  • But the actual cause of her injuries could not be established.   (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
  • He quickly established himself as one of the top two students in his class of six hundred.   (source)
    established = proved
  • "But by this time hadn't you established the fact that he'd been with Medusa?" asked the Tennessean.   (source)
    established = determined or shown
  • "Theft is not established," the lawyer interrupted.   (source)
    established = proven
  • ...it is established beyond all doubt ...   (source)
    established = shown or proved
  • Their best hope for getting off the mountain alive, they concluded, was to go over the top and down the well-established Southeast Ridge route, an extremely audacious plan, given the late hour, the unknown terrain, and their rapidly diminishing supply of bottled oxygen.   (source)
    established = known
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