affirmation
Example Sentences
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“For me that was a profound affirmation for a piece of work that could easily have been very harshly and very negatively judged.”
The endangerment finding is the U.S. government’s 2009 affirmation that planet-heating pollution poses a threat to human health and the environment.
From Los Angeles Times
"This is really exciting for me to see just more affirmation of how sensitive their trunks really are," she told AFP.
From Barron's
I was envious—I wanted the same feelings of affirmation they had.
“This verdict is a powerful affirmation that constitutional rights do not stop at the end of a driveway,” Diggs said in the written statement.
From Los Angeles Times
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