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as in certifies
to declare (something) to be true or genuine
a jeweler authenticated the diamond as real
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as in verifies
to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of
we require more than simply your word to authenticate this story
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Recent Examples of authenticates
The Open Source Munitions Portal, which authenticates publicly sourced images of munitions worldwide, has published several images of unexploded submunitions found in Israel this week.
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Melanie Lidman,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
The challenge lies in developing a solution that authenticates these agents and identifies their human operators rather than uniformly blocking them.
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Yair Tal,
Forbes.com,
13 Feb. 2026
Melanie Lidman,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
The challenge lies in developing a solution that authenticates these agents and identifies their human operators rather than uniformly blocking them.
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Yair Tal,
Forbes.com,
13 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for authenticates
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The drone business boom Last year, Thunder Tiger’s Overkill drones became the first from an Asian company to qualify for the Pentagon’s Blue Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Cleared List, which certifies commercial drones for use by the US military.
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If Hoskins certifies the referendum, the court said, the map would be retroactively suspended.
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The fault line of the next decade is not who generates knowledge the fastest, but who verifies it.
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This program verifies magnet performance before the parts are locked into the main reactor.
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Ending the show with one final jump affirms that there’s no future in which the Landry family is done with time traveling, despite the trauma and heartache the pond has delivered with its gift.
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At the same time, the resolution affirms Southern Baptists’ hope for Jews’ conversion to Christianity.
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Ray advises Anna to let the police handle the situation, which confirms him as the most rational character on the show and thus the only threat that Cady seems to recognize.
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The veteran anchor, 65, who hosted the weekend show Alex Witt Reports, is set to leave the channel later this summer, PEOPLE confirms.
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Club Kid is funny, and filled with deft jokes, but there’s a stylistic exuberance to it that attests to how Firstman wasn’t just thinking in terms of verbal punchlines.
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The runaway success of the Toyota Prius in 2004-2008 attests to this.
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Such lifting of sanctions all but guarantees that the Iranian regime will be bolstered mere months after protests brought it to the brink of collapse.
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Despite a ticking clock that seemingly guarantees the girl’s senseless death will be discarded as a cold case, Noelle is determined to uncover the truth, using her mind-numbing day job digitizing records at the local police station as a platform.
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“Authenticates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/authenticates. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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