confirms

verb

present tense third-person singular of confirm
1
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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2
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 By the time a metric confirms the decline, the company has already lost the months in which the gap could still close. — Kerry Huang, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 Howden will be able to serve in the role without legislative approval until the Texas Senate confirms him when the Legislature returns in January. — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 17 July 2026 And the data confirms that these local towns and counties have benefited from having the monuments there. — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 July 2026 But as data confirms year after year, Latinos remain grossly underrepresented across the entertainment industry. — Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire, 16 July 2026 Garner’s costar D’Arcy Carden, who plays the people-pleasing Brooke on the show, confirms the bond. — Clarissa Cruz, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026 The company plans on securing more than 300 pieces of land in the rural area, creating space for the construction of a new, 35-mile transmission line, Meredith Stone, a spokesperson for Georgia Power, confirms to PEOPLE. — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026 An independent review of the scoring in Manny Pacquiao’s contentious WBO welterweight world title loss to Jeff Horn confirms the outcome in favor of the Australian. — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026 Republican Commissioner Christy McCormick also resigned, a White House official confirms to TIME. — Connor Greene, Time, 10 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confirms
  1. verifies
  2. approves
  3. argues
  4. ratifies
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  • Someone should know who verifies the image, who speaks for the company, who explains what happened, who fixes the process that failed, and who keeps the organization from turning a teacup storm into a bathtub flood.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • On Kalshi, an internal team verifies outcomes against source reporting — typically within 12 hours of confirmation — with payouts landing about three hours after that; winners take $1 per winning share.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
Definition of verifies
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  • If the city approves the sale, this would be the second deal Griffin has reached to remove an important historic building from the Brickell neighborhood.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • People still decide which customer takes priority, who approves the purchase and when an override is justified.
    — Robert Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of approves
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  • However, Chad Nelsen, CEO of the Surfrider Foundation, argues that California’s beach access laws and tradition are well established and should have come as no surprise to someone capable of purchasing 53 acres of prime shoreline.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 16 July 2026
  • Trump has been pushing Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) argues that the GOP doesn’t have the 60 votes needed to pass the legislation.
    — Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 16 July 2026
Definition of argues
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  • The school board is scheduled to vote on the agreement during its meeting on Tuesday, but the union urged an earlier vote, saying teachers could return Monday if the board ratifies the deal by then.
    — Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Others feel that the treaty effectively ratifies something that already exists.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
Definition of ratifies

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