as in establishing
to show the existence or truth of by evidence
he tried in vain to document a link between ancient civilizations and extraterrestrials
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Recent Examples of documenting
The organization began documenting the attacks in May 2020 and has recorded over 500 attacks since.
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Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 31 Aug. 2025
Start by shifting delivery away from you, documenting your processes, and building a team that can operate independently.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Every choice — stop here or drive farther — can mean documenting meteorological history or missing it.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The buzzy couple shared the news of their major milestone via a joint Instagram post documenting the romantic photoshoot.
—India Roby, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2025
Hilaria, 41, has spent this month documenting her actor husband's efforts to teach her some impressive dance moves on her Instagram.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Natalia Estemirova, a human rights activist documenting Chechen abuses who was kidnapped and murdered in 2009.
—Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
The video documenting the find, posted on August 1 by Amanda DeRise (@the_vintage_victorian on TikTok and Instagram), has garnered over 97,000 views on the former platform since it was shared on August 1.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Expelled from the United States, young Mexican immigrants like Garcia, 35, are documenting the aftermath of their deportation online.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 31 Aug. 2025
Start by shifting delivery away from you, documenting your processes, and building a team that can operate independently.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Every choice — stop here or drive farther — can mean documenting meteorological history or missing it.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The buzzy couple shared the news of their major milestone via a joint Instagram post documenting the romantic photoshoot.
—India Roby, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2025
Hilaria, 41, has spent this month documenting her actor husband's efforts to teach her some impressive dance moves on her Instagram.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Natalia Estemirova, a human rights activist documenting Chechen abuses who was kidnapped and murdered in 2009.
—Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
The video documenting the find, posted on August 1 by Amanda DeRise (@the_vintage_victorian on TikTok and Instagram), has garnered over 97,000 views on the former platform since it was shared on August 1.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Expelled from the United States, young Mexican immigrants like Garcia, 35, are documenting the aftermath of their deportation online.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for documenting
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Oz aired for six seasons, establishing HBO as a home for serious adult dramas, and establishing Winters’s screen image, as well — that captivating blend of menace and vulnerability.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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The risk with this approach is that Harvard would live to fight another day, but become complicit in establishing a precedent that goes against the fundamental rights inherent in our democracy.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Arsenal know that and Smith will take no time proving it.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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And succeeding on Wall Street means proving it every day — a proposition only complicated by a retail world that is, well, more complicated.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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Soon, Geoffrey Hinton and his graduate students began demonstrating that neural networks, trained on large datasets and run on GPUs, could do things—like classify images into a thousand different categories—that would have been impossible in the late 1980s.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Fahey Rush was often responsible for demonstrating how the company’s TV audiences — in the linear era, some of the industry’s youngest — behaved and consumed media and advertising.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Documenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/documenting. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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