testified

past tense of testify
as in swore
to make a solemn declaration under oath for the purpose of establishing a fact several witnesses testified that they had seen the accused in the vicinity of the crime scene

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Recent Examples of testified During a nine-hour-long public hearing on Thursday, dozens of people testified against construction of the arch. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 11 Nov. 2026 The lawsuits allege that Ouellette, who was 18 at the time, bought alcohol at Edgewood before attending a party at the Schultz Corporation, where multiple witnesses in the criminal trial testified that there was underage drinking. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026 Patrick Kinavey, the chief county detective on the case, testified about photos taken at the crime scene, including the knoll in front of the house where Sluganski had been fatally shot and a picture of his Glock handgun, which had not been fired. — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026 Cooperated with the government Brown cooperated with the government and testified at the racketeering trial. — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2026 Lengthy trial with surprise testimony Jurors listened to six weeks of testimony, including from Kafle Bhatt’s mother, Gita, and her brother Mahesh, who testified through an interpreter, according to WUSA. — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2026 The woman told some of her friends about the incident soon after, who later testified during Brand’s trial. — Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2026 Kirk, 31, had been answering a question about gun violence when he was shot in the neck by a marksman with a bolt-action rifle from a rooftop perch roughly 415 feet away, an investigator testified. — Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Nov. 2026 The Nuremberg women testified, prosecuted, wrote, translated and painted. — Natalie Livingstone, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for testified
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  • One woman swore Alexander showed up outside a memorial service and asked people for IDs.
    — Francesca D’Annunzio, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The body language expert swore that the camp hangouts were positive.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As attested to by the numerous engravings and graffiti on its walls, people have been visiting the Cova de la Font Major for at least 900 years.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2026
  • In reality, there are masses of eco wins, attested to by being the first resort in the Balearics to be certified by BREEAM, an independent international body which assesses criteria such as energy, land use, pollution and waste.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • Based in Kyiv, Kashuba herself has witnessed the growing economic anxieties and the loss of neighbors’ incomes.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Their specialty is that shock, witnessed Saturday at the start of the fourth quarter with the game locked in a 17-all tie after a Gopher touchdown dart from Drake Lindsey to a leaping George Rohl seemingly gave the home team all the momentum.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The hackers' claims and the underlying dataset have not been independently verified in full.
    — Elsa Ohlen,Matthew Tan, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The data will be held to a higher standard and independently verified.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2026

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“Testified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/testified. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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