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.
  • One guy had a pile, one-foot high, of documentation about the Hall of Fame.
    Steve Miller, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The footage was just some of the documentation Hayek made to mark the milestone moment.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024
  • The Aztecs were a bigger empire and there's lots more documentation done on the Aztecs than there was the Mayans.
    Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2022
  • An audit means that the IRS will ask you for more documentation.
    Adriana Morga, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The change stands to impact many more Afghan refugees who may lack the documentation needed to stay in Pakistan.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
  • While care for each piece can vary greatly, documentation can help the process.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Once the inspections and documentation are done, the next step is to 'De-ICE' the vehicle.
    New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The investigation into the cause of the crash will pore over documentation on all the work that was done on the aircraft.
    John Miller, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Now that they have been burned, the risk is that their documentation is forever lost.
    Linda Kinstler, Wired, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Faria did not respond when asked to provide the documentation to Fox News.
    Fox News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • No documentation of any kind is required to pick up masks.
    Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The Exxon Valdez proved to Janka the power of visual documentation.
    J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
  • And after everyone is safe, the bystander should ask the victim what to do with the documentation.
    oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
  • You will be asked to give them certain documentation, such as copies of check stubs and medical records.
    Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 3 June 2024
  • The documentation tells you which tube goes into which hole on the filament hub.
    PC Magazine, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Jahraus said he's sent Lazebna an email with all his documentation and the letter from Sashko’s doctor.
    Fox News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The lack of documentation and other setbacks, like a measles outbreak that put a pause on flights to the US, has left many on bases for prolonged periods of time.
    Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The town could not provide documentation for the cancellation of those meetings, the SBOA said.
    Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2023
  • Lee Miller was a woman who contributed enormously to the visual documentation of the truths about the Nazi regime.
    Federica Polidoro, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The outcome of the charges against Lauren Hand is unclear because the documentation is not public.
    Moe Clark, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The narrative is the only documentation Cox has been able to get about the circumstances of his brother’s death.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Then in 1966, within months of getting the documentation, he was drafted into the U.S. Army.
    Megan Burrow, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Yet the impact of the documentation requirements can cut both ways.
    New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • The photos and videos were a visual documentation of her story.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2022
  • This includes people who have substance use disorder, who will need to present the right documentation of their health status to be exempt from the work requirements.
    Jennifer Klump, Verywell Health, 4 June 2025
  • Its focus then shifts to the more recent past, highlighting the role that women played in the excavation, documentation and preservation of Pompeii as an archaeological site.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2025

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