circumstantiating

verb

present participle of circumstantiate
as in backing (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumstantiating
  1. proving
  2. establishing
  3. corroborating
  4. documenting
  5. identifying
  6. demonstrating
  7. recording
  8. validating
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  • The collectors who owned them had spent months and thousands of dollars in fees proving what the cards were worth—all for thieves to take two pallets of the cards and make off with the rare collectors’ items.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The State cannot transform one into the other without proving every element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of proving
Verb
  • For a government overseeing a population dominated by mobile expats, that created a lot of uncertainty in terms of establishing an economic base that can support a welfare system and basic state infrastructure.
    — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Noah Clowney has flashed as a floor-spacing big without establishing himself over a full season.
    — C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of establishing
Verb
  • Investigators evaluate its credibility and seek corroborating evidence.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Both Fields’ lawyer and his agent are now on record corroborating the initial report that drew TCU’s ire.
    — Mac Engel September 24, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of corroborating
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  • The law introduced stricter requirements for documenting aircraft safety assessments and evaluating how pilots interact with aircraft systems.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Gerlach, the photographer, began documenting the kitchens in 360-degree panoramas after discovering that existing photographs rarely captured the relationship between their individual components.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of documenting
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  • After Saturday’s tragedy, someone sent him the picture identifying Goulding as one of those killed.
    — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • As tasks like writing code, identifying bugs, or writing emails get automated away by AI, employees at Anthropic have now found that the big picture tasks are increasingly what count.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of identifying
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  • There's also the gap between demonstrating a prototype and delivering a finished vehicle.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Its progress will depend on integrating the communications hardware and demonstrating the system’s performance through testing.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of demonstrating
Verb
  • After recording a safety, K-State accepted the football and marched 41 yards in eight plays, but had to settle for a 28-yard field goal by Rodriguez.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
  • In Meta’s case, creepy video-recording incidents and privacy-light tampering have caused severe headaches for the company.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of recording
Verb
  • Ian Papautsky, a microfluidics researcher at the University of Illinois Chicago, says that Theranos’s public downfall and time in the spotlight create a strong case for validating scientific findings.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Despite these risks, organizations are rapidly funding AI initiatives before validating the data those initiatives depend on.
    — Mark van Berkel, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of validating
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