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
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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
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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
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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
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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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