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attest

[uh-test] / əˈtɛst /


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He was, as history now appears to attest, dangling a carrot that he would never allow you to have.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Past team-mates for club and country will queue up to attest to his character as a player and a person.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

In fact, although I couldn’t attest any of it to three decimal places, I had a pretty good notion of the weather conditions generally, on account of I was out in them.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

The huge demand in the U.S. attests to advice gone unheeded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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

Stopping fights is a full-time a job, and Steve’s chummy de-escalation style attests to how much he cares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

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

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

But her gifts were entirely her own, as attested to by this 20-disc collection of Deutsche Grammophon recordings, including her complete recitals for the label.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

More than 1,000 people attested to their losses after investing with GPB, according to federal prosecutors who described the victims as “hardworking, everyday people.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

Jones consented to a search, had no weapons, and attested that she sought to demonstrate peacefully.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

The names of neither father nor son are attested much elsewhere.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

In the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, Congress said voters may register to vote by filling out a form and attesting under oath they are citizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

There is no shortage of studies attesting to sunlight’s benefits that don’t get widely publicized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

The note was stamped with the school’s official seal, attesting that he was a full-time student and only thirteen years old.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane


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