dare ragione

Italian

Literally, “to give reason”. Compare French donner raison.

dàre ragione (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) dò ragione, first-person singular past historic dièdi ragione or diédi ragione or détti ragione or (traditional) dètti ragione, past participle dàto ragione, first-person singular future darò ragione, first-person singular subjunctive dìa ragione, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive déssi ragione, second-person singular imperative dài ragione or dà' ragione, auxiliary avére) [with a]

to bear out; to prove right
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
  ... il software di riconoscimento facciale della CIA gli avrebbe presto dato ragione.
  ... the CIA's facial recognition software would soon indicate the same.
  (literally, “... the CIA's face recognition software would soon prove him right.”)
to admit that someone is right