How to Use validate in a Sentence

validate

verb

• A judge still needs to validate the election.
• The court validated the contract.
• The decline in sales only validated our concerns.
• Customs officers validated our passports.
• Scan your ticket to validate at the kiosk on the first floor near the book checkout counter.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• But please, please, from the bottom of my heart — do not validate Ryan Reynolds in this way.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
• Sowers, 25, the lacrosse star, seemed to validate this concern.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• So what’s been validating to me is to see the work come together over that number of years.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
• One of the threads for me for all those years of listening was that all humans are looking to be validated.
  — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• There were so many moments that were really validating in terms of how much the cast loved it.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• The 388 names were compiled by the FBI and deemed validated with first and last names, county officials said.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
• This was a validating triumph for the Ravens’ front office almost as much as for the players and coaches.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2024
• And now there’s proof, or at least an academic study — from UCLA, no less — that validates what wide receivers have said all along.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• To validate the Shibumi hype even more, assembly and teardown were quick and easy, and the sound of the canopy flapping in the wind made our beach days even more relaxing.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
• The Nittany Lions won the games they were expected to this year but would like to finish with a top-10 triumph to validate their season.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Adobe validates whether an image’s metadata is the original to help users know if it has been changed, Rao said.
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
• For starters, Meta would have to use experts to validate that the app does in fact improve fitness if the company was going to market it that way.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• Like Mean Girls, the dark comedy looks inward and validates the emotions of young women.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
• For the first few years of the mission, scientists will need to validate its results through extensive on-the-ground measurement.
  — Corinne Purtill and Rosanna Xia, oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2022
• The goal is to validate the spacecraft's capabilities ahead of a human flight of the vehicle in about two years' time, the Artemis II mission.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2022
• Cameron refuted their results, and promised to conduct his own tests to validate the film’s ending.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2023
• Sometimes all your child wants is a sensitive ear and someone to validate their feelings.
  — Bea Lewis, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• The most important part is to normalize and validate their feelings.
  — Amber Ferguson, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• This team badly needs a strong showing against the West-leading Nuggets to validate its successful weekend.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2023
• Just hovering your nose over the burger will validate the technique.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
• Data that Evotec shares with business partners comes with proof that it is validated and safe, Evers said.
  — Catherine Stupp, WSJ, 3 July 2023
• Our findings validated the concerns from the Bickerman study and the pharmacists’ calls to UF.
  — Randy Hatton, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2023
• There’s a lot of season left, and by the time the real bracket comes out in March, the Hall will have either validated its red-hot Big East start and worked its way up the bracket, or will have fallen back to earth.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• Still, the findings will need to be validated with larger studies that test patients farther along in their illness, the authors note.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• To validate that Google’s suggestions work, cities can use traffic counts from video footage or other sensors.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024