Sample Sentences for
authenticate
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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
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    The note was under the Baron's own seal and I've authenticated the seal.  (source)
    authenticated = established that something is real or legitimate
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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
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    …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)
    authenticated = widely accepted
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    The title of his talk is "Problems of Authentication in Reference to The Handmaid's Tale."  (source)
    Authentication = proof that something is real
    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.
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    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
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    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)
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    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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    ...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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    Lib asked, "What did that 'Authentication X-Ray' stand for?"†  (source)
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    Unless the leeches didn't mind killing a bunch of bystanders to authenticate it, and why would they?†  (source)
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    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)
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    Congress ordered that the document be authenticated and printed.  (source)
    authenticated = shown to be real or legitimate
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