sourced

verb

past tense of source
as in referenced

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  1. documented
  2. corroborated
  3. validated
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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