testaments

noun

plural of testament
1
as in evidences
something presented in support of the truth or accuracy of a claim the "before" and "after" pictures are a testament to the effectiveness of the weight loss program

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2
as in ideologies
the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group Jefferson's collected writings constitute his political testament

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Recent Examples of testaments After all the glowing testaments to his character, the apartment was startlingly nondescript. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 The Public’s strength and ambition today stand as direct testaments to his leadership and vision through storms and blue skies alike. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 22 July 2026 Vance, who struggles through the most basic photo ops, is not one of the best; his two successful elections are both testaments to Trump’s political muscle. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026 One of the greatest testaments to the French Laundry’s influence has been the sheer number of alumni who have opened acclaimed restaurants of their own, from Grant Achatz’s Alinea to Corey Lee’s Benu to Rene Redzepi’s Noma. — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 26 June 2026 Today, there are few living testaments to that headcount. — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026 About 2 miles north on Central, though, stand more quiet monuments, testaments to Native American resistance and resilience. — Rebecca 'becca' Dyer, AZCentral.com, 5 Mar. 2026 After two years of research, an art historian believes that the designs on glass Roman cage cups are testaments to the skill and collaborative efforts required to craft some of the empire’s most renowned pieces of glasswork. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025 Hind’s voice — fragments of which spread online and were later verified and analyzed by outlets including The Washington Post, Sky News and Forensic Architecture — became one of the most haunting and emblematic testaments of the war in Gaza. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for testaments
  1. evidences
  2. ideologies
  3. testimonies
  4. philosophies
  5. proofs
  6. doctrines
  7. testimonials
  8. documentations
Noun
  • Tome is also accused of intentionally deleting digital evidences, police said.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Aug. 2026
  • What Frost’s claim evidences is that perennial American anxiety about speaking a tongue whose name isn’t shared with that of our nationality.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
Definition of evidences
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  • It's all set against a years-long backdrop of Americans' bad ratings of the economy, and appears to have many questioning the broader system – or at least eyeing solutions unconstrained by the usual ideologies.
    — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The charities represent a cross section of ideologies and missions — left- and right-leaning, foreign and domestic, media, religious, humanitarian.
    — Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of ideologies
Noun
  • Their greatest challenge was balancing the multiple registers of the film’s oral testimonies with Hayasuke’s plea to not speak alone in the book’s literary prose.
    — Dylan Adamson, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Their stories are not chronicles of any time, place, or personality, but testimonies to the human spirit.
    — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of testimonies
Noun
  • The Bills — sporting their new-look, attack-style 3-4 defense — attempted to stay as vanilla as possible while executing their core defensive philosophies.
    — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • It's published by Sony, a company at the intersection of Western and Japanese philosophies.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of philosophies
Noun
  • Funhouse Chaos Soon after Cohen shared his result, other mathematicians started using it to unlock new proofs about how waves behave in chaotic situations.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Five days after OpenAI let mathematicians pick apart Astra's proofs of ten long-open math problems, the same model earned a much less celebratory distinction.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of proofs
Noun
  • As a kid growing up in a religious household, Jean found the strict doctrines of Christianity unconvincing.
    — Juliet Linderman, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • Even Fitz-Gerald’s locker is a callback to his mom’s doctrines.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of doctrines
Noun
  • And over the rest of the week, speakers at the Black Hat security conference down the Strip provided their own testimonials about AI’s effectiveness in finding software vulnerabilities.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Look past the design for evidence of actual closed deals, real sector experience, and testimonials from sellers, not just buyers.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of testimonials
Noun
  • An avid field recordist, Kamaru has spoken of running his documentations of his surroundings—buses and bustling markets in Nairobi, sirens and birdsong in Berlin—through various types of digital processing, stretching and mulching and interweaving them with synths until the humdrum becomes musical.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Last October, the cemetery was vandalized with historical documentations and markers as well as plaques with poems being removed and torn down.
    — Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 31 Jan. 2026
Definition of documentations

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