verification

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Recent Examples of verification The House has also reached an agreement on the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, which includes pornography age verification and social media protections for minors. Victoria Baeza Garcia, The Washington Examiner, 20 July 2026 Nonlocality, whose experimental verification helped earn the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, allows distant quantum systems to produce correlations that cannot be explained by classical physics alone. Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026 The good news is that privacy-safe age verification already exists, and the Australian law—along with the global interest in it—is creating a robust market for better solutions. Ravi Iyer, Time, 18 July 2026 Your letters may be up to 200 words and must be signed with your email address, city of residence and daytime phone number for verification. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for verification
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Noun
  • Gelfond said that presales for the movie’s second weekend would rank among their 10 best presales, proof that many moviegoers are waiting to see the film in their preferred format.
    Jake Coyle, Fortune, 19 July 2026
  • An impossible philosophy passage and a confounding geometry proof.
    Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
Noun
  • Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2026.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 17 July 2026
  • Fix, who has experienced the upsell scam herself, recommends bringing a printout (yes, a paper printout) of your confirmation.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • Conversely, there are moments throughout Pompeii where the trail goes cold due to insufficient documentation from 2,000 years ago, frustrating Hiddleston in the process.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2026
  • The rate was $485 a night, according to expense documentation provided to the Herald through the records request.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
Noun
  • That was with the advantage of evidence that people will pay for transportation.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Yet lawyers involved told me that Administration policymakers seemed to want specific proof of a war crime, and since the State Department doesn’t run courts to weigh evidence, the lawyers couldn’t prove anything.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

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“Verification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verification. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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