testify (to)

as in to guarantee
to declare (something) to be true or genuine that auction house will always testify to a painting's authenticity

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Verb
  • Validating Transaction Completeness Even in 2025, no open banking provider guarantees 100% accuracy.
    Peter Potapov, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Tuesday, April 8, 2025 Deadline to apply for membership to guarantee voting eligibility for both rounds of the 77th Emmy competition and to secure member entry fee discount.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
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  • Kettle & Fire also pays to certify its broth is free of any residue from the herbicide glyphosate and proudly displays that fact on its label.
    Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Agencies don’t have the forms to nominate officers and deputies, much less train and certify them.
    Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2025
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  • Cautious optimism grew earlier in the week as the twice-daily health updates affirmed that the pope was eating solid food, sitting up in his armchair, and even taking care of simple work tasks from the comfort of his hospital room.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Lee is appealing his conviction for election-law violations in 2022, and if two appellate courts affirm it, he will be barred from public office for 10 years.
    Ian Bremmer, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • Robot backflips are becoming commonplace, but a front flip is significantly more difficult than a backflip, as any gymnast can attest.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Three successive passes in close proximity, which could have caused the drone to lose control, attesting to a desire to restrict free air movement in common areas.
    Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The American dream is unstoppable and our country is on the verge of a comeback, the likes of which the world has never witnessed and perhaps will never witness again.
    NPR, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
  • From the earliest days of Create Music Group, [co-founder and COO] Alexandre Williams and I had the privilege of working alongside Joel and his business partner Dean Wilson, witnessing firsthand the evolution of an icon.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Testify (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/testify%20%28to%29. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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