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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
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As Yiyun Li’s well-crafted yet somewhat static novel attests, this is nothing new.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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
SpaceX’s forthcoming initial public offering attests to the boom in space travel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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
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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
Today, she revels in ownership over the honor: “That was for me too and I recognize what my part in that was. I know I was put in this role for this,” she attested.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
Jones consented to a search, had no weapons, and attested that she sought to demonstrate peacefully.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025
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
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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
“Where we don’t have research, clinical trials, what we’ve got a ton of, is, shall we say, testimonials, patient affidavits, attesting to the wonders of the drug,” said Scott Brunner, the alliance’s chief executive officer.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
"Then, the video attesting to the truth would be shown," she says.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contendon.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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