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authenticate
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  • What is authenticated is that when he returned to Paris in the late fourteenth century, he was extraordinarily wealthy.†   (source)
  • Unless the leeches didn't mind killing a bunch of bystanders to authenticate it, and why would they?†   (source)
  • I sensed that something of deep personal value, but not money, not that at all, had been authenticated and confirmed.†   (source)
  • Sorry, Bob, no, we haven't yet had one authenticated sale.†   (source)
  • "Would you like to authenticate it?" asked Cooper.†   (source)
  • Authenticated by who?†   (source)
  • Forms filled out, instructions by letter, identification confirmed and authenticated by an established firm of attorneys.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • They maintain there has never been an authenticated case of an unprovoked attack by a dolphin on a human being.†   (source)
  • That pamphlet in your hand, mein Kommandant, can easily be authenticated and will prove my point.†   (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)
  • Lib asked, "What did that 'Authentication X-Ray' stand for?"†   (source)
  • The title of his talk is "Problems of Authentication in Reference to The Handmaid's Tale."   (source)
    authentication = proof that something is real
  • 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 other names in the document are equally useless for the purposes of identification and authentication.   (source)
    authentication = proof that something is real
  • The main facts of that story are authorized and authenticated by the document.   (source)
    authenticated = shown to be real
  • The sentry ran it through an electronic authentication device.†   (source)
  • He had authenticated that by telling us things he couldn't have known.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 family—save a very large family of children—might renounce a bishopric?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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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