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validate

[val-i-deyt] / ˈvæl ɪˌdeɪt /


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Thursday’s widely anticipated interest-rate hike, which would bring the ECB’s deposit rate to 2.50%, carries less importance than how willing Lagarde is to validate the market’s recent pricing, Gomez-Liechti said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

“To validate these projections, tech companies will need to bring in unprecedented amounts of new revenue,” Berezin wrote.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

You’d expect someone to have figured out a way to validate the White House numbers if there was a way,” said Rory Johnston, founder of Commodity Context, an oil-market research firm.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

“Waymo’s immediate focus is preparing to launch rider-only service in San Diego later this summer and continuing to validate its technology in Sacramento.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

By contrast, Lauritsen and his Caltech colleagues soberly devoted two full pages to a meticulous accounting of every step they had taken to validate the French findings on carbon and boron alone.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

“It really validates what we felt as exhibitors,” said Gunsky, who is the second-generation owner of the Campbell, Calif.-based chain.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

“We agree the win validates the appropriateness of the adjuvant setting for a vaccine,” Leerink Partners analyst Daina Graybosch wrote in a note on Thursday.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

“A sizeable commitment from a frontier compute provider validates Indonesia’s ambition to move up the digital value chain and deepens the region’s ecosystem,” Tay writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

"This important certification validates the rigor of our airplane's design and recognizes the determination and resilience of our 737 MAX development team," said Stephanie Pope, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

If you have a heterogeneous class make up of many different ethnicities, abilities, races, providing activities validates who they are as people, and sends a message that their voices are valued.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

“Our priority is ensuring Kalshi’s settlements rest on objective, scientifically validated atmospheric data,” said James Belanger, vice president of meteorology at the Weather Co.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

In the 1990s, Sandra Scarr provided research that partially validated and expanded on Winnicott’s ideas.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

"Diabetes was associated with increased accumulation of amyloid β, while people with lower BMI had faster accumulation of tau. However, these findings need to be investigated further and validated in future studies," continues Isabelle Glans.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

He said that with closed-circuit cameras everywhere, any allegation of a security breach easily can be validated or disproved.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Reassuringly, the results had been validated theoretically by Oppenheimer, who was gratified that they undermined certain European theories of quantum dynamics with which he heartily disagreed.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Layla says she has always given herself a hard time for not "coming up to scratch" but that taking part in the research project has felt "validating and freeing".

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

"The next steps will involve validating these findings in animal models of early post-traumatic osteoarthritis and studying how ultrasound-based modulation affects long-term tissue repair in joint injury settings," Subramanian says.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

The conflict has functioned as an accelerated stress test, compressing years of operational learning into months and validating or refuting assumptions about real-world system performance.

From MarketWatch Jun. 29, 2026

“In that moment, it was incredibly validating to realize that if Guillermo liked what we were doing, then it made sense to keep on doing it,” Roy said.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

In any case, despite the anti- climactic results, the test results were interpreted by the AEC as validating Livermore’s role as the developer of “new ideas” in thermonuclear technology.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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