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authenticate
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  • The note was under the Baron's own seal and I've authenticated the seal.†   (source)
  • Sorry, Bob, no, we haven't yet had one authenticated sale.†   (source)
  • Unless the leeches didn't mind killing a bunch of bystanders to authenticate it, and why would they?†   (source)
  • Congress ordered that the document be authenticated and printed.†   (source)
  • His position, when a notification subsequently arrived stating that there was a recognized breed of tailless cats with a well-authenticated history, was awkward, and somewhat expensive.†   (source)
  • "Would you like to authenticate it?" asked Cooper.†   (source)
  • Forms filled out, instructions by letter, identification confirmed and authenticated by an established firm of attorneys.†   (source)
  • Lib asked, "What did that 'Authentication X-Ray' stand for?"†   (source)
  • "I believe," Sullivan replied cautiously, "that there is one fairly well-authenticated case of a whaleman being swallowed and then regurgitated with no ill-effects.†   (source)
  • Becoming conscious of the hard, strung presence she stood on—knowing as if maps had been flashed for her on the sky how these tracks ran on into others, others, knowing they laced, deepened, authenticated the great night around her.†   (source)
  • That pamphlet in your hand, mein Kommandant, can easily be authenticated and will prove my point.†   (source)
  • They maintain there has never been an authenticated case of an unprovoked attack by a dolphin on a human being.†   (source)
  • Authenticated? It was signed by the judge who sentenced him.   (source)
    authenticated = shown to be real or legitimate
  • "It was not authenticated," the Warden said.   (source)
  • The main facts of that story are authorized and authenticated by the document.   (source)
    authenticated = shown to be real
  • The title of his talk is "Problems of Authentication in Reference to The Handmaid's Tale."†   (source)
  • The sentry ran it through an electronic authentication device.†   (source)
  • He had authenticated that by telling us things he couldn't have known.†   (source)
  • The other names in the document are equally useless for the purposes of identification and authentication.†   (source)
  • X-Ray is simply international code for the letter X. My guess is that before every mission they change the authentication letter so that the enemy can't take over the frequency and give Sky Queen a false heading, or phony instructions.†   (source)
  • Authentication X-Ray.†   (source)
  • Knitting her reddish-brown hairy stocking, with her head outlined absurdly by the gilt frame, the green shawl which she had tossed over the edge of the frame, and the authenticated masterpiece by Michael Angelo, Mrs. Ramsay smoothed out what had been harsh in her manner a moment before, raised his head, and kissed her little boy on the forehead.†   (source)
  • They regard it as the one absolutely authenticated appearance of the Blessed Virgin in the New World, and a witness of Her affection for Her Church on this continent.†   (source)
  • …the child was asleep, a broadcast programme from London suddenly started to come through; and the next morning, to the astonishment of his crash and crash (the more daring of the boys ventured to grin at one another), Little Reuben woke up repeating word for word a long lecture by that curious old writer ("one of the very few whose works have been permitted to come down to us"), George Bernard Shaw, who was speaking, according to a well-authenticated tradition, about his own genius.†   (source)
  • And there's another well-authenticated rumor from Russia that Lenin is dead.†   (source)
  • In London that night poor Henderson's telegram describing the gradual unscrewing of the shot was judged to be a canard, and his evening paper, after wiring for authentication from him and receiving no reply—the man was killed—decided not to print a special edition.†   (source)
  • The sisters sat in silence; Nicole wondering in a tired way about things; Baby considering whether or not to marry the latest candidate for her hand and money, an authenticated Hapsburg.†   (source)
  • He fully shared the opinion of those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, and who place a Styx at the base of society.†   (source)
  • It is a well-authenticated fact, that at the present day the most able men in the United States are very rarely placed at the head of affairs; and it must be acknowledged that such has been the result in proportion as democracy has outstepped all its former limits.†   (source)
  • There are, no doubt, authenticated instances of gentlemen having given up ladies and ladies having given up gentlemen to meritorious rivals, under circumstances of great high-mindedness; but is it quite established that the majority of such ladies and gentlemen have not made a virtue of necessity, and nobly resigned what was beyond their reach; as a private soldier might register a vow never to accept the order of the Garter, or a poor curate of great piety and learning, but of no…†   (source)
  • Nevertheless there have occurred instances, well authenticated ones too, where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment or two, in a sudden squall say—to seize hold of the nearest oarsman's hair, and hold on there like grim death.†   (source)
  • Prying further into the manuscript, I found the record of other doings and sufferings of this singular woman, for most of which the reader is referred to the story entitled "THE SCARLET LETTER"; and it should be borne carefully in mind that the main facts of that story are authorized and authenticated by the document of Mr. Surveyor Pue.†   (source)
  • The poor souls were not versed in ancient history, and did not know that Shakspeare had authenticated this costume, by telling how "The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.†   (source)
  • An order of nolle prosequi, founded on his well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, had set him at liberty.†   (source)
  • After having authenticated the fronts of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:— "Pardi!"†   (source)
  • The only thing which seems to be authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at that epoch, and who arrived at D—— about three o'clock in the morning, saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome.†   (source)
  • Vague rumors, a few words here and there, unauthenticated stories, were all Duane had gathered in years to substantiate his belief—that Jennie died shortly after the beginning of her second captivity.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unauthenticated means not and reverses the meaning of authenticated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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