How to Use validation in a Sentence

validation

noun

• I'm afraid we cannot act on your claim without validation.
• The data should be a means to an end, though, not a source of validation in its own right.
  — Samantha Kleinberg, STAT, 8 Jan. 2024
• The bump in sales is a validation of Amazon’s changes to this year’s Prime Day.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 13 July 2023
• Or is validation enough that this is the right battle to choose?
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• This seems to bond them, giving validation that the job is hard.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2022
• To be on the top 10 list of IMDb is a massive validation of the film’s reception.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• That must be some kind of career validation, that maybe the biggest new pop star in the world the past year or so is a fan of your band.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2022
• This win was validation for all the knocks and slights the Bengals have been receiving since May.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 23 Jan. 2023
• Despite the hype, there still are only wisps of validation in this space.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 1 Dec. 2023
• Stick with your plans, because the new Moon of the 15th brings wonderful validation.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
• But after the rough and tumble of his tenure, Klain took the midterm results as validation.
  — Katie Rogers, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
• Cruise says the Origin shuttles will hit the streets in Austin in the coming weeks, with the first several being used for testing and validation.
  — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
• There is validation in finding new people to work with that want to work with me or ask me to work with them because my body of work resonates with them.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2023
• This leaves the validation up to the user, and users may not have the motivation or skills to do so or even recognize the need to check an AI’s responses.
  — Chirag Shah, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
• And in the ultimate validation of their work, one of their heroes is returning the fandom.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2024
• To me, that means more than any sort of shallow industry validation.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2023
• But also going to a high school that was looking to Europe for validation.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• For those who live here, in one of the poorest wards in the nation’s capital, its end marked a time to reflect: with pride, with validation, with frustration — and fear.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• Getting the nomination is not only a reward for me but a validation of what the team has been doing.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• To do the build-out, production, and validation could easily take seven or more years, Galyen said.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2024
• So divesting from the praise, the applause, the validation, that really resonates with me.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2022
• Rivian would be able to pull out of the deal May 1 if certain provisions of their agreement with the state and JDA are not met, including the bonds’ validation.
  — Zachary Hansen, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
• Once travelers apply for the status match program, Alaska said the validation process can take up to four weeks.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
• Such validation was important for Quan, who had returned to acting after a break of more than two decades.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• This cook and noted griot was determined to use food as a source of pride and validation for African Americans.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
• Dottie and Albie’s son (Joshua Sasse) must try to hold the clan together despite his sisters’ egos and need for validation.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
• And with each success, each accomplishment, each validation, the test becomes more like a tease.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• The official added that the ICJ’s decision to hear a genocide case lodged against Israel was validation for the authors’ concerns.
  — Mick Krever, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• As noted by the Dark Reading blog, input validation is a common weakness in code.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
• The master is rather to be pitied, because that person depends on the servant not only for labor but for validation as master.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024