Thesaurus results for TESTIFIES

testifies

verb

present tense third-person singular of testify

as in attests

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 testifies Dern plays Monsanto’s chief toxicologist, who testifies during the trial that Roundup is safe. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2026 Horner’s former pastor testifies Gary, a lead pastor at Horner’s church, is testifying. —

Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026 Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent testifies during a during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing on the Treasury Department’s 2027 budget request in Washington, DC on April 22, 2026. —

Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026 Civic spending in all but eight states testifies to the fact that the Lost Cause fantasy was not an aberration or an abomination, but the reality across the country. —

Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026 And Starmer will face further challenges on Tuesday when Robbins testifies in front of a parliamentary committee. —

Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026 The light that falls from the left, through half-open windows, onto Vermeer’s walls, some of them bare, testifies not so much to an overcast Dutch day as to a suffusion of grace. —

Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 Arielle Konig testifies this month. —

Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026 Lead investigator testifies Texas Ranger Job Espinoza, the lead investigator on the case, took the witness stand Wednesday as prosecutors played a lengthy video recorded by investigators. —

Jane Harper, Dallas Morning News, 8 Apr. 2026

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As Moyes attests, there are small improvements that can be made — at home and on the road — but the fact that Everton’s boss is disappointed with a loss against the champions-in-waiting shows how close his side was to providing the perfect away performance.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Still, 21 pages of notes in his book attests to the work Crawford put into the project over the course of a year.

— Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026