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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

As anyone who has tried to hold Europe in the board game Risk can attest, the continent is geographically harder to seal off than North America or Australia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

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

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

A large, gestural 1972 painting attested to a road not taken, while records of his sojourns in Europe and Africa revealed the influence of architecture on abstract structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

The group sent a letter Monday to the Justice Department asking it to file court documents attesting to the fund being dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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

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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