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attest

[uh-test] / əˈtɛst /


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None of this is bad on its own, as millions of Sims fans can attest.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

Tens of thousands of comments on BookTok, a popular book community on TikTok, attest to the popularity of one of Russia's greatest novelists with the social media generation.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

Alexander said California law requires registering voters to prove and attest to their identity and has multiple verification measures to ensure people casting ballots are who they say they are.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Editors rely on authors to attest that their works are both accurate and original.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Yet fossils attest to human presence in China for over half a million years.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Of course, within those strictures, conservatives may refine and advance as well as conserve, as Mr. Alexander’s score card attests.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Shew said he’s only supposed to be given registrations to process if the would-be voter attests they are a U.S. citizen, as federal law requires.

From Salon May 14, 2026

Jean has two personalities, he attests: “the peaceful one here, and the bonkers one onstage.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2026

"Belen Garijo's brilliant international career attests to her strategic vision and her ability to drive profound and value-creating transformations," board chairman Frederic Oudea said in a statement.

From Barron's Feb. 12, 2026

Gorgias’s brother Herodicus is a doctor, and the former attests that when trying to persuade a patient to submit to a course of treatment, his oratory is far more effective than his brother’s medical expertise.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Tavitian’s admiration for complexity and technical virtuosity is attested to by many extraordinarily detailed works.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

De Kooning’s refusal to settle for a single approach is attested to by a series of cartoon-like standing figures, repeated by means of transfer techniques, that recalls those earlier efforts at illustration.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

She did all this, he continued, “while enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles, as attested to by her frequent posting on her recently deleted Instagram account.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2026

In court, lawyers for the department attested that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection rigorously adhered to this standard.

From Slate Feb. 18, 2026

From then on, I knew that there was a ritual to a street fight, bylaws and codes that, in their very need, attested to all the vulnerability of the black teenage bodies.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A medical letter attesting to your mother’s health might help.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Even attesting to the Irish that they don’t do any of the banned trade would be a U.S. violation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

"Then, the video attesting to the truth would be shown," she says.

From BBC Feb. 14, 2026

Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.

From Salon Dec. 8, 2025

Kamen reached out to Lawrence for a deposition attesting to his loyalty, of which Lawrence in fact had no doubt.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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