Proved
Set
Set adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The Win 32 GDI (the standard set of libraries used by Windows programs to perform graphics and input functionalities) proved too bulky and too slow to be used for games, having been designed instead to be a more general set of functionalities for application development.
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Hybrid was so evil that Rom was willing to set his weapon to "kill" when Hybrid proved too powerful to be banished to Limbo.
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However as proved in the prologue set in 1954, nuking Godzilla doesn't seem to work.
Source: Edible Ammunition
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