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Recent Examples of authentication
As the global market for secondhand luxury items surges, authentication has become the defining factor separating credible platforms from the rest.
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Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Don't assume messages or calls are legitimate, especially if someone asks for a password or authentication code.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The cheapest cost per card for grading and authentication is $18.99 and there’s a 20-card minimum.
—Mark Billingsley, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Other companies explain how their security keys fit into your cybersecurity toolkit, such as Yubico's posts about open authentication standards supported by its products, or the list of services accepting hardware security keys sponsored by Nitrokey (linked to by Google).
—PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025
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Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Don't assume messages or calls are legitimate, especially if someone asks for a password or authentication code.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The cheapest cost per card for grading and authentication is $18.99 and there’s a 20-card minimum.
—Mark Billingsley, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Other companies explain how their security keys fit into your cybersecurity toolkit, such as Yubico's posts about open authentication standards supported by its products, or the list of services accepting hardware security keys sponsored by Nitrokey (linked to by Google).
—PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for authentication
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Filling a data gap The Ocean-4 01 underwent a series of rigorous verifications, including payload activation, ground-space link establishment, and system calibration.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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These official letters act as a sort of income verification and are therefore key to obtaining aid like housing assistance, fuel assistance and help from nonprofits.—
The NPR Network,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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The accolades and the records are wonderful, but the validation for the fans to have that moment in pop culture was the real victory for us.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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This gentle validation is both a theme in her stories and a guiding principle in her creative process.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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In many cases, those determinations simply cannot be made until court cases begin, and evidence relating to the suspect's background and planning are publicly available.—
NPR,
NPR,
25 Oct. 2025
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Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
25 Oct. 2025
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Chromophoric proof concept The team harnessed enzymes to generate acetyllysine inside cells, then incorporated it into proteins at specific sites.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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All one needs to do is look at the GMC Syclone for ample proof.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
24 Oct. 2025
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This powerful synergy enhances detection, tracking, classification, and identification while also enabling autonomous drone swarm operations, including self-organizing collaboration.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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It is federally owned, does not allow visits from the general public without an escort or specific government identification and has been home to the current base, Base Alameda, since 2012, according to a Coast Guard document from 2016 cited by The Associated Press.—
Elizabeth Pritchett , Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Comparable in size to the Arc de Triomphe, the Porte Monumentale also contained surface ornamentation based on Haeckel’s exacting lifelong documentation of organisms to be found in the world’s oceans.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Be sure to also provide them with your confirmation number, flight details, seat number, and any supporting documentation.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Oct. 2025
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In fact, military buildups without diplomatic assurances are prone to be interpreted by China’s leadership as confirmations of hostile intent.—
STEPHEN WERTHEIM,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2025
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Be sure to also provide them with your confirmation number, flight details, seat number, and any supporting documentation.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Authentication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/authentication. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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