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attest

[uh-test] / əˈtɛst /


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We all know recollections may vary, but if he made a fuss about his generosity and happiness for you at your wedding, there will be enough witnesses to attest to the nature of the transaction.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 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

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

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

Exchanges at the Supreme Court are getting testier, as one this week between Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Ketanji Brown Jackson attests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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

A total of 53 crosses attests to that.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 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

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

Jones consented to a search, had no weapons, and attested that she sought to demonstrate peacefully.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

None of those uses of the wheel was adopted in the Americas, where wheels are attested only in Mexican ceramic toys.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Each plant would need a “phytosanitary certificate” attesting to compliance with the agricultural rules of its destination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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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