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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
“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
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
The voting was absolutely free, as Aureliano himself was able to attest since he spent almost the entire day with his father-in-law seeing that no one voted more than once.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The board or manager then annually attests to the city that the information is up-to-date and accurate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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
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
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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
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
Jones consented to a search, had no weapons, and attested that she sought to demonstrate peacefully.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025
The willingness of the two universities to share Robert Oppenheimer attested to the scarcity of qualified theoretical physicists in American academia, especially theoreticians of Oppenheimer’s distinction.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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A medical letter attesting to your mother’s health might help.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
"Then, the video attesting to the truth would be shown," she says.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Cash transactions are banned, and businesses must obtain signed affidavits from sellers attesting where the metal was obtained and keep copies of photo IDs and license-plate numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 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
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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