circumstantiated

Definition of circumstantiatednext
past tense of circumstantiate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumstantiated
Verb
  • The Office of the Special Investigator was established to work with police on the war crime allegations.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Brownsville Civic Association president Kenneth Kilpatrick said that when the advisory committee was first established, Brownsville residents had no interest in incorporating.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Security company Trend Micro has documented that actors who’ve worked on past operations benefiting the North Korean government have used these addresses, particularly in scams involving fake recruiters.
    Jessica Klein, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Arguments against generational smoking laws The tobacco industry’s attempts to undermine tobacco health policies are well documented and follow a predictable pattern.
    Marie Helweg-Larsen, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Witnesses corroborated Arielle Konig's account of what happened.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Hager’s account was corroborated by an ARC client who overlapped with him.
    Alex Acquisto, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Following Caballero’s go-ahead RBI single that put his team up, 4-3, in the top of the 10th, Rays first baseman Jonathan Aranda’s RBI infield single proved to be enough for a walk-off 5-4 victory at Tropicana Field on Saturday night.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has proved its biggest strategic advantage in the war.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • On average, almost 200 rapes were recorded by the police every single day in the year up to June 2025, which the government say is likely to be an underestimate of how many took place.
    Cerys Jones, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Public outcry shut this down a few years later, but the audience surely knew the reference when Lehrer recorded this song live at Sanders Theater.
    Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Key components of the O2O’s design have already been validated in a series of demonstrations dating back more than a decade.
    Adam Bluestein, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Everyone could wake up in their lives right now and start to acknowledge things that have happened to them, but to get healing and to be seen and to be validated at the other end of it, wow.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In a recording of a different non-emergency call demonstrated for USA TODAY, the Aurelian system answered a call from a man reporting his neighbor's barking dogs.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The advent of cheap commercial drone technology changed the equation dramatically, as demonstrated by the Ukrainian military’s adoption of new tactics.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • At that time, Leatherman and a passenger, identified as Bryan Selmer, abandoned the vehicle and ran, court records show.
    JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • An investigation led to a third suspect being identified, Michael Ray Elam, 46, and he was located and arrested, the sheriff’s office said.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Circumstantiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumstantiated. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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