How to Use documentation in a Sentence

documentation

noun
  • Can you provide documentation of the claims you're making?
  • You cannot visit the country unless you have the proper documentation.
  • Keep your receipts as documentation of your purchases.
  • The program's documentation is poorly written.
  • An audit means that the IRS will ask you for more documentation.
    Adriana Morga, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The Exxon Valdez proved to Janka the power of visual documentation.
    J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
  • The town could not provide documentation for the cancellation of those meetings, the SBOA said.
    Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2023
  • For instance: Is there a lack of accurate documentation for the metal there?
    Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Thus, the Politkofsky was perhaps on-site for the occasion though the documentation is uncertain.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • The writing is bracing, painful in its clinical documentation, laced with a sense of guilt and the utter futility of that guilt.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Many sources cite California in the 1960s as its birthplace, but with little documentation to back that up.
    Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But before any of that could happen, Mando, who had been living in the US without documentation, needed to secure a visa.
    Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
  • To us, that holds far more weight than any paper documentation or colonial record keeping ever could.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In the aftermath of the raid, von Braun himself sifted through the flaming wreckage, trying to save the most important documentation.
    David Axe, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • There is documentation of newborn heart transplant patients that are more than 40 years old.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
  • How much, if at all, has your sense of empathy for these people changed through the therapeutic process, either in your personal life or in the documentation of the show?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • If the house were sold on the open market, not only could the architecture be lost and the art scattered through a dealer or auction house, but the new owner could decide to scrap much of this documentation.
    Helen Stoilas, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • For this piece, Maggie took the testing feedback and documentation from the T+L testing crew, and along with her own background in hiking footwear, compiled these reviews.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Lynch, for instance, told Stat she was fired for not making the length-of-stay target, as well as falling behind on filing documentation for her daily caseloads.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The premiere of the family’s reality show and the documentation of the Anna and Eldridge's wedding comes two months after her death.
    Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • In these days of constant and ubiquitous media documentation, few of the perpetrators seem to feel any shame.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Vince, who left Trax in 1986, started to pull documentation of his music from a long and varied musical career, to get it all in one place for his family, just in case.
    Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Lambert also says the Llama 2 release leaves a number of questions unanswered, in part due to the lack of documentation of training data.
    WIRED, 26 July 2023
  • With that framework, the film feels like a documentation of a timebomb situation.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 June 2023
  • The community must have commenced the project due to public health concerns and must submit proper documentation to the PSC within six months.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2023
  • In a blog post, repair site iFixit focused on the free documentation element.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 24 May 2023
  • The letter, which is the only documentation of Columbus’s first travels to the Americas, was stored in a binding that was created in the 18th or 19th century, Ford said.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In a post-Covid world, the rules keep changing, so be sure to do your homework, know what documentation your destination requires you to bring, and be prepared for whatever might happen.
    Erica Kasper, WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • On average, physicians spend nine hours a week filling in documentation for electronic health records (EHRs), forcing many of them to stretch workdays into the evenings.
    Sunita Mishra, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • It can be used for identity management for refugees who have no documentation.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024

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