How to Use authenticate in a Sentence

authenticate

verb

• The signature has been authenticated.
• Your phone is used to authenticate your access to that passkey, though.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
• Four of the five do not authenticate your identity with each use.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2020
• At least two of the three shares must come together to authenticate.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 29 Jan. 2021
• It was then authenticated as one of the real eggs.
  — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• This authenticates the yarn from fiber to fabric, all the way through to the finished product.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 27 May 2025
• The trove of passwords in the vault are all used to authenticate to servers that also store a copy of the password.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 6 July 2021
• Once open, the page authenticates the same account to be opened on the TV app.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
• Vogel thinks her cookbook might be the first inspired and authenticated by a board game.
  — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Passkeys offer a safer and more convenient way to authenticate.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
• Pay-TV subscribers can authenticate and gain access to the new app at no charge.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
• Managers from both authenticated the videos from the stand and were not cross-examined.
  — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
• Much of Weinberg's work consists of authenticating the items brought to him for sale.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 12 Apr. 2018
• The coin or bar would need to be refined and its value would need to be authenticated, meaning gold dust or nuggets could not be used.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023
• The baseball was set aside and authenticated.
  — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
• All someone will need to do to authenticate a payment is pop their thumb onto one of the chips embedded into the card.
  — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• To that end, the league and Lakers will attempt to authenticate whether the recording is genuine.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Use it to authenticate and unlock your phone, or send payments over Apple Pay.
  — Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2017
• The source of the tweet has not been authenticated by NBC News.
  — NBC News, 13 Jan. 2020
• Like other collectibles, Rally worked with experts in the field to authenticate the copy.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
• Thus began a decades-long journey to authenticate the signature on the artwork.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
• The 2015 ball was authenticated right after that called third strike.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2025
• All of these safeguards ensure shoppers get authenticated Labubus in a jiffy.
  — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2025
• Mail ballots must be processed and authenticated before they can be counted.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
• The young boy then leaves the seating area with his dad and security, who escorted them out to have the ball authenticated.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
• The hashtag for everything users need to know about sourcing, restoring, or even authenticating their kicks.
  — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
• Luckily for them, the DJ had time to stop in and authenticate the signature.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
• Keep in mind that items like this have not been professionally tested or authenticated.
  — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 20 Apr. 2026
• How does law enforcement authenticate it?
  — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
• Look for multiple verified sources that can help authenticate the image.
  — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026