testifying (to)

present participle of testify (to)
as in guaranteeing
to declare (something) to be true or genuine that auction house will always testify to a painting's authenticity

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  • In this recipe, the bread is sliced vertically instead of horizontally, guaranteeing that each slice of bread has garlic butter.
    Malaka Gharib, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In July, the Pentagon also struck an unprecedented deal to buy a $400 million stock in rare earth company MP Materials, while guaranteeing a ten-year floor price of double prevailing market levels for the strategically crucial rare earth magnet neodymium-praseodymium.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • Her message was both affirming and inspiring.
    Essence, Essence, 20 Oct. 2025
  • For Barr, the experience was both surreal and affirming.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • EHang is leveraging its experience from certifying the EH216-S, which already operates commercial flights in China, to streamline the approval process.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This includes everything from surveying and certifying nursing homes to assisting Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries and overseeing contracts or extra payments to rural ambulance providers.
    Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • Maybe so—and a coming wave of insider stories attesting to Weiss’s difficulties in asserting her authority strikes me as the most inevitable outcome of this affair.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This includes employers attesting, via the Department of Labor, that a prospective H-1B worker won’t affect wages and labor conditions of similar American workers, USCIS said.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
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  • Zero-trust approaches aim to manage this sprawl by authenticating every request in real-time, regardless of its origin.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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  • Directed by Matt Whitaker (Saints and Soldiers), written by Ethan Vincent and Whitaker, it’s based on the true story of Helmuth Hübener, a heroic 16-year-old in Nazi Germany who formed a resistance group with his friends Karl and Rudi after witnessing the arrest of his Jewish friend.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Link and Jimenez’s 11-year-old son also testified about witnessing Jimenez beating his mother.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Testifying (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/testifying%20%28to%29. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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