testified (to)

past tense of testify (to)
as in guaranteed
to declare (something) to be true or genuine that auction house will always testify to a painting's authenticity

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Verb
  • Valanciunas has a $10 million non-guaranteed salary for next season, with $2 million of it guaranteed.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 June 2026
  • Golden State only has four healthy players – Steph Curry, Brandin Podziemski, Gui Santos and Will Richard – guaranteed to be under contract for next season.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
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  • Twenty-four days after the polls closed on election day, Los Angeles County officials have certified the results from the 2,227,461 ballots cast.
    Vanessa Martínez, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
  • By Friday morning, one of Maiquetía’s runways had been reopened and certified for C-17 Globemaster military cargo aircraft, dramatically expanding the volume of aid entering the country.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 27 June 2026
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  • The court affirmed a decision made in March by an appeals court, which noted Shirilla's lawyers missed the deadline to file a post-conviction appeal by a single day.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026
  • The Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit under the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA).
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
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  • If the underlying model behind an agent can be identified and attested, then trust no longer has to rest on the interface alone.
    Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • But, of course, as some of you may be thinking, nothing causes more pain than the desire for pleasure—a fact attested to by countless love songs and religious texts.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
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  • Many of the hunters witnessed their acquaintances navigating those challenges and struggling with sometimes debilitating symptoms.
    Bram Sable-Smith, NPR, 27 June 2026
  • The South Asian diaspora witnessed a wave of musical innovation in the early 1980s, producing a number of records that would go on to earn landmark status.
    Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • Everything is authenticated through their hub.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
  • Valued at up to $17 million, the painting has not yet been publicly identified but is reported by French newspaper Le Parisien to have been authenticated as belonging to a 1937 series of portraits the artist made of his French model and lover Marie-Thérèse Walter.
    News Desk, Artforum, 22 June 2026
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“Testified (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/testified%20%28to%29. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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