circumstantiated

Definition of circumstantiatednext
past tense of circumstantiate
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Verb
  • Our economic systems are not serving the people who live here, whose forefathers established this new republic, and our grandparents actualized the peak of its success.
    Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Tarleton State first established its presence in Fort Worth in 1978 with a medical laboratory science program.
    Samuel O’Neal May 4, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • That tension — between the gravity of what the commission documented and the limits of what it was empowered to do — defined Thursday’s release of its final report.
    Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • The village was unique set apart from the more common Chinese bachelor labor camps documented in California history.
    Sharon Chin, CBS News, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • These findings are corroborated by Marking’s testimony to county officials.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Urbina shared documents that detail how she was lured into the scam, and ProPublica corroborated her story with her husband and Catholic Charities.
    Naisha Roy, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Over the longer term, the curbs proved far from a death knell, with the country’s production rising in subsequent years.
    Anthony Di Paola, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • But the combination of rising fuel costs and changes in the industry proved too much to overcome.
    Joel Rose, NPR, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • In 1999, the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado struck the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, causing 41 deaths and nearly 600 injuries; the tornado’s top wind speed of 321 mph was the highest ever recorded on Earth.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • Declines of about 10% to 17% have been recorded elsewhere, including against the Swiss franc, South African rand, Danish krone, Swedish krona and the Euro.
    Matt Sedensky, Fortune, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • The results were validated with field measurements from excavations and drilling, along with simulations confirming the radar signals originated beneath the debris.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 1 May 2026
  • Emery will argue his fine-margins approach, however blunt Villa presently appear in attack, could have been validated if Ollie Watkins’ close-range shot was not straight at Stefan Ortega or if Lucas Digne had not flapped his arms inside the box to give away a penalty.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • The Connecticut Green Bank has demonstrated how this model can scale, leveraging relatively modest public investment into billions of dollars in clean energy financing.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 4 May 2026
  • California and other states have demonstrated repeatedly that our elections are secure and that only citizens are voting.
    Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • The person who had called in the incident identified Sweeney, who was still there, as her killer.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The Sleep Switch Inside Your Brain The team identified two chemical messengers in the hypothalamus that work like an accelerator and a brake.
    Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Circumstantiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumstantiated. Accessed 7 May. 2026.

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