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adjective

Definition of attestednext
as in demonstrated

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attested

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verb

past tense of attest
1
as in affirmed
to declare (something) to be true or genuine the appraiser attests that the lamp is indeed an original Tiffany

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2
as in testified
to make a solemn declaration under oath for the purpose of establishing a fact an eyewitness who will attest to my innocence

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3
as in confirmed
to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of I'll attest that she was at the party

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attested
  1. affirmed
  2. testified
  3. confirmed
  4. valid
  5. certified
  6. verified
  7. established
  8. argued
Verb
  • The September 2024 authorization in the US took the self-affirmed Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) route.
    Christine Ro, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • For the most part, recent high-quality polls have only affirmed the closeness of the race.
    G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of affirmed
Verb
  • Mills testified against his former colleagues during the four-week trial and acknowledged striking Nichols with his baton three times.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Five officers were charged in Nichols’ death, but two pleaded guilty and testified against members of their old crime suppression unit.
    Adrian Sainz, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of testified
Verb
  • This past week, Amazon confirmed that season 2 had 55 million viewers in just a month of release, even if viewership may have been down somewhat significantly at its premiere.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The existence of the bot was also confirmed by Dark Visitors, which monitors scraper bots.
    Kali Hays, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of confirmed
Adjective
  • This means someone with valid credentials and who has received higher education in exercise science.
    Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2024
  • There are also other valid concerns about AI power demands and AI bias.
    David Nield, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of valid
Verb
  • Price is expected to remain in office until the election’s results are certified next month, at which point Chief Assistant District Attorney Royl Roberts would be expected to take over, county leaders have said.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The standard military equipment guidelines in China and the US dictate that any equipment certified as HEMP-proof should be able to function after being subjected to an electric field of 50 kilovolts per meter.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of certified
Verb
  • Running until the final general election results come in, courted and verified, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the often blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Satellite imagery has now verified that the greening trend in the Antarctic is not only ongoing but is also accelerating.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of verified
Adjective
  • Envisioned as a workshop filled with various materials and tools, participants take their project from idea to implementation, all under the guidance of established pros.
    Songyee Yoon, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Worst case, public health authorities worry, the U.S. could see increases in preventable illnesses; a weakening of public confidence in established science; and debunked notions — such as a link between vaccines and autism — adopted as policy.
    Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune Well, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of established
Verb
  • Teixeira's attorneys argued for a sentence on the low end of the range, noting that the maximum of 200 months would be more than the government sought against Julian Assange, who is accused of publishing a trove of classified documents.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • While sentencing closed a chapter of the case, Levy argued wreckage caused by the defendant will continue to resonate.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of argued
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