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the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group Jefferson's collected writings constitute his political testament

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Recent Examples of testament Those orders jumped from $138 billion to $455 billion and are a testament to growing demand for Artificial Intelligence demand in the cloud services sector. Jj Kinahan, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 For three-quarters of its pages, the book reads like a paean to dope, a lyrical testament to the transcendent bliss of the first time using, and to the futile effort to recapture it. Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025 And that’s a testament to Sarah Ann Masse. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025 That the Broncos were still in enough control of the game to do so running the football is a testament to just how dominant Denver’s defense played from start to finish in a 20-12 win. Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for testament
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Noun
  • Demand for the grades 6-12 school, which typically sees over 90% of its graduates enroll in college, grew for the new facility, with a waitlist for admission as evidence, Principal Chelsea McWilliams told the Herald.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • State prosecutors — which in this case would be the county district attorney’s office — are typically prohibited from assuming jurisdiction over a killing outside the country without compelling evidence that a suspect made plans to kill while still in the United States.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This perspective aligns with his broader philosophy that emerged from watching his father lose his ability to earn income during Collins’ childhood—an experience that motivated him to ensure investments could eventually replace employment income.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • White earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from San Diego State University in 1987 and graduated from Pepperdine School of Law in 1991.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Between dives at Prime Scuba Ishigaki, you’ll be served hot mushroom curry rice, beef bowls reminiscent of Yoshinoya, and steaming soup—proof that even on the water, Ishigaki takes its food seriously.
    Kaila Yu, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said that there is no proof of a causal link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and a child’s diagnosis of autism.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Fedorov and Svyatogor represent two sides of Cosmism, which Groys writes never had a unified doctrine.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • If that fails, youth could back a Prime Minister from outside Parliament, invoking the doctrine of necessity—though this risks overstepping constitutional limits.
    Sonal Nain, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a filing on Friday, Lively’s team opposed extending the deposition deadline to accommodate a deposition of Swift, questioning the relevance of her testimony and accusing Baldoni’s lawyers of causing unnecessary delay.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
  • During Donilon’s testimony, the longtime Biden aide told investigators he was paid $4 million for Biden’s reelection campaign and would have been paid another $4 million if Biden had won.
    Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • My own daughter was recruited into a radical ideology.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This includes reducing the documentation burden for doctors and cutting different types of paperwork that nurses have to do.
    Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • If your documentation rules are vague or your platform can’t handle specialty-specific nuances, AI will simply replicate those problems on a larger scale.
    Terry Goertz, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • The fate of scientific research under the Soviets has been much written about by scholars like Loren Graham and Paul Josephson, with testimonials by those who fled adding many personal details.
    Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Family members, friends, and neighbors turned out, holding signs and sharing testimonials; some of them posted direct appeals to Bukele, the Salvadoran President, on social media.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Testament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/testament. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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