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Alexander said California law requires registering voters to prove and attest to their identity and has multiple verification measures to ensure people casting ballots are who they say they are.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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
As a condition of being tax-exempt, nonprofit private schools must attest that they won’t discriminate based on race, color, or national or ethnic origin.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Hartig told lawmakers that while the White House report is under review, "we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum."
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
He had been known to make that climb five or six times a day on the queen’s business, as the aches in his knees and the small of his back could attest.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
As the ending of the musical attests, there may be a way to do both, to be politically engaged and still enjoy the beauty of the world around you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 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
She did all this, he continued, “while enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles, as attested to by her frequent posting on her recently deleted Instagram account.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 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
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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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
Even attesting to the Irish that they don’t do any of the banned trade would be a U.S. violation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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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