circumstantiated

verb

past tense of circumstantiate
as in backed (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumstantiated
  1. established
  2. documented
  3. corroborated
  4. proved
  5. recorded
  6. validated
  7. demonstrated
  8. identified
Verb
  • The result nevertheless established an auction record for the artist.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Curated by Javier Garcia Puerto, the program has been celebrating filmmakers who challenge cinematic conventions, bringing together emerging voices and established directors.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of established
Verb
  • Season 11 of the show documented the new mom tending to infant Kayden in Croatia as the boy’s father, Nathan Gallager, worked 18-hour days on a nearby superyacht, the Akira One.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Raqib Naik, the center’s founder and executive director, said that the team documented an influx of posts portraying South Asians as invaders, job thieves and a demographic threat, evoking Great Replacement theory and remigration rhetoric.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of documented
Verb
  • Sheen corroborated in his Book of Sheen memoir that head of CBS Les Moonves and offered to use the network’s jet and fly him to rehab.
    — Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Her testimony, corroborated by video evidence and other clues investigators had gathered, pulled the entire story together.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of corroborated
Verb
  • Apple Vision Pro proved particularly useful for judging the scale of sets before physical construction.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, ceasefires have repeatedly proved fragile.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of proved
Verb
  • The men talked about who would assault the woman beforehand, took photos and recorded the assault, which was also seen on a security system feed at the home in Sullivan's Island, an affluent suburb of Charleston, state agents said.
    — MEG KINNARD, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Wiggins recorded 19 points on 8-of-15 shooting from the field and 1-of-5 shooting on threes, six rebounds, one assist, one steal and one block in 22 minutes.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of recorded
Verb
  • Has this story only validated your existing beliefs about social media?
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The mission verified the performance of its main systems and validated its flight characteristics.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of validated
Verb
  • When Albin returned to the question of which country posed the greater threat to American interests, el Sayed again declined to choose between them, arguing that both had demonstrated the capacity to cause harm.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Ud Doula reiterated that the RSC had failed to deliver adequately on its existing mandate and that the industry had already demonstrated its capacity to improve factory safety.
    — Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of demonstrated
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  • The companies also identified industrial logistics and supply-chain applications as potential areas for future cooperation.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
  • In January 2002, an American citizen identified as Victim-7 was detained in Venezuela on charges alleging participation in a conspiracy to assassinate Maduro.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of identified
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