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How does the verb validate contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of validate are authenticate, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, and verify. While all these words mean "to attest to the truth or validity of something," validate implies establishing validity by authoritative affirmation or by factual proof.

validated the hypothesis by experiments

When might authenticate be a better fit than validate?

Although the words authenticate and validate have much in common, authenticate implies establishing genuineness by adducing legal or official documents or expert opinion.

handwriting experts authenticated the diaries

In what contexts can confirm take the place of validate?

While the synonyms confirm and validate are close in meaning, confirm implies the removing of doubts by an authoritative statement or indisputable fact.

confirmed the reports

When would corroborate be a good substitute for validate?

While in some cases nearly identical to validate, corroborate suggests the strengthening of what is already partly established.

witnesses corroborated his story

Where would substantiate be a reasonable alternative to validate?

The synonyms substantiate and validate are sometimes interchangeable, but substantiate implies the offering of evidence that sustains the contention.

the claims have yet to be substantiated

When is verify a more appropriate choice than validate?

The meanings of verify and validate largely overlap; however, verify implies the establishing of correspondence of actual facts or details with those proposed or guessed at.

all statements of fact in the article have been verified

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of validate And the warm response has been validating, and intoxicating. Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 May 2025 So my colleagues and I first conducted in-depth interviews with 14 crypto investors, then surveyed nearly 500 others to validate our findings. Mingyi Liu, The Conversation, 8 May 2025 The team’s 82-59 victory the next day validated all the effort. Sean Gregory, Time, 5 May 2025 The key to successful gentle parenting, says Dr. Norwalk, is to validate a child's emotions while still setting boundaries and consequences for their behavior. Alex Vance, Parents, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for validate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for validate
Verb
  • America, meet the Orb: a bold new attempt to verify you’re not a bot — just by looking you in the eye.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • Almost 82,000 also provided data from activity trackers that allowed researchers to verify their speed.
    Simon Spichak, Health, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • While one clip of a haircut gone seriously wrong also proved popular.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 May 2025
  • And while streaming has begun to reach profitability for some companies, the services have yet to prove as lucrative as the traditional bundle.
    Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • On May 3, the actor attended Moda Operandi, the pre-Met Gala cocktail party orchestrated by Donatella Versace at The Twenty Two hotel, all but confirming her attendance at the biggest fashion event of the year.
    María Munsuri, Glamour, 4 May 2025
  • The news was confirmed via a public obituary and his daughter Anne Marie Scalies’ statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 May 2025
Verb
  • The report also presses the Federal Communications Commission to establish performance standards and develop measurable goals and monitoring for WEA performance, and ensure mobile providers include location-aware maps by the December 2026 deadline.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
  • Much of the fighting has focused on the group’s desire to establish an independent Kurdish state in the country’s southeast.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • If everything old really is new again, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Lehigh Valley, Fairfax Industrial District and Hazelwood Green are some of the best examples, demonstrating what’s possible when fresh innovation takes root within legacy manufacturing sites.
    Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • The ability for adversaries to store histories of events that never actually occurred directly into an LLM’s memory database was demonstrated last year.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2025

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“Validate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/validate. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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