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  • I needed authentication from the Attorney General. How do I know it's legitimate?  (source)
    authentication = proof that something is real
  • The title of his talk is "Problems of Authentication in Reference to The Handmaid's Tale."  (source)
  • ...the Dossiers Secrets had been authenticated by many specialists and incontrovertibly confirmed what historians had suspected for a long time:  (source)
    authenticated = shown to be real
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  • He had already authenticated his experience by telling me things he could not otherwise have known.  (source)
    authenticated = proven that it was what he said it was
  • Lib asked, "What did that 'Authentication X-Ray' stand for?"†  (source)
    Authentication = to establish that something is real or legitimate
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Would it be contrary to medical ethics in the HeLa cell's coming-of-age year to authenticate the name and let He … La … enjoy the fame she so richly deserves?  (source)
    authenticate = establish that something is real or legitimate
  • The seeds of them have been rediscovered in pre-Columbian tombs and in Egyptian pyramids; an authenticating detail, though not, when you come to think of it, all that reassuring.†  (source)
    authenticating = establishing that something is real or legitimate
  • 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)
    unauthenticated = not established as real or legitimate
    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.
  • The note was under the Baron's own seal and I've authenticated the seal.  (source)
    authenticated = established that something is real or legitimate
  • 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)
    authentication = to establish that something is real or legitimate
  • Unless the leeches didn't mind killing a bunch of bystanders to authenticate it, and why would they?†  (source)
    authenticate = establish that something is real or legitimate
  • 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)
    authenticating = establishing that something is real or legitimate
  • Congress ordered that the document be authenticated and printed.  (source)
    authenticated = shown to be real or legitimate
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