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as in verifies
to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of
several eyewitnesses who can confirm the defendant's account of what happened
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as in approves
to give official acceptance of as satisfactory
the senate must confirm an appointment to an ambassadorship
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Recent Examples of confirms
Other research confirms this, assigning sleep a pivotal role.
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Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter, activist and founding member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday, his representative confirms.
—Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Once the chair of the meeting confirms a quorum is present and calls the meeting to order, the first item of business should be approval of the agenda.
—Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
Whole Foods Market’s 2025 food trend report confirms that tea is going to turn heads in the dessert aisle, in canned drinks, as the focus of adult tea parties, and in wine-sized bottles of sparkling tea.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
That confirms what Srinivasan and others believe about the future of battling counterfeits.
—Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
This chart also confirms that the new models from AMD will not offer faster performance than its previous models.
—Antony Leather, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
So The Batman 2, which would release after the Brave and the Bold, would be a flashback from The Brave and the Bold, given that obviously Pattinson is nowhere near that point in his story currently, and The Penguin timeline confirms that.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
How the National Weather Service confirms twisters What was the worst day for tornadoes in Ohio history?
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter, activist and founding member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday, his representative confirms.
—Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Once the chair of the meeting confirms a quorum is present and calls the meeting to order, the first item of business should be approval of the agenda.
—Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
Whole Foods Market’s 2025 food trend report confirms that tea is going to turn heads in the dessert aisle, in canned drinks, as the focus of adult tea parties, and in wine-sized bottles of sparkling tea.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
That confirms what Srinivasan and others believe about the future of battling counterfeits.
—Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
This chart also confirms that the new models from AMD will not offer faster performance than its previous models.
—Antony Leather, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
So The Batman 2, which would release after the Brave and the Bold, would be a flashback from The Brave and the Bold, given that obviously Pattinson is nowhere near that point in his story currently, and The Penguin timeline confirms that.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
How the National Weather Service confirms twisters What was the worst day for tornadoes in Ohio history?
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confirms
Verb
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California generally verifies the identities of mail voters through their signatures.—
Laura J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
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Another disclosure verifies the borrower’s identity.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Scott approves of the decision not to torture viewers with more uncertainty.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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If the Supreme Court approves the petition, it is finalized and can be circulated.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
18 Mar. 2025
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White argues that the crypto industry has become a re-creation of much of what its original ideology claimed to despise.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
11 Dec. 2024
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But Vanessa Cho, design partner at GV, Alphabet’s venture capital division, argues that’s the wrong way for founders to think about design.—
Lionel Lim,
Fortune Asia,
10 Dec. 2024
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Such emerging opportunities can also be applied to cost benchmarking, scope-of-work planning and management, client-agency performance evaluations and many other key marketing functions that procurement supports.—
Bruno Gralpois,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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But for people living with chronic pain, experts agreed this research supports the idea that healthy eating could be a tool for some relief.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Confirms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confirms. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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