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“But we could not attest to that if we had used Fable, so we just never used it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Money, as this column can attest to, makes that even more complicated.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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
They could not have been more mistaken: As anybody who knew Albus would attest, he never revealed the remotest anti-Muggle tendency.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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
"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
This anthology of verse from its pages attests to the excellent judgment of its previous editors and to that of Walt Hunter, the Atlantic’s current poetry editor, himself a distinguished poet-critic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 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
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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
Greenspan, in a 1985 letter to regulators and in testimony to Congress, attested to Lincoln’s financial strength and the prudence of its lending program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
In letters to the court, family and friends, including Perla Hudson, the ex-wife of musician Slash, attested to Sangha’s character.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
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
But other times, the children had known love and lost it, and as the boy himself had attested, that hole where love had once lived was immense.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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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
He showed me a text message from a senior producer attesting to that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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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