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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

Greek art reached a pinnacle of beauty as respect for the individual flourished in Athens, and Roman relics attest to the might of the greatest empire in the ancient world.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

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

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

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

They must be segregated from issuer assets, independently attested and subject to federal supervision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The two have not talked since the report was published Wednesday, but that’s not out of the ordinary, James attested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 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

Imposing “an entirely new command structure,” she attested, would “wreak operational havoc within MPD,” “create tremendous risk for the public,” and “inevitably lead to delays and confusion.”

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2025

The names of neither father nor son are attested much elsewhere.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

There is no shortage of studies attesting to sunlight’s benefits that don’t get widely publicized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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

Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contendon.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller


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