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The detectives looked for evidence to corroborate her story.corroborate = support
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A blood test corroborated the doctor's suspicion of diabetes.corroborated = supported
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As if to corroborate Bean's statement, the enemy began to call out to them. (source)corroborate = support with additional evidence
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All this ... helped corroborate Enrique's story. (source)corroborate = support -- typically with additional evidence or testimony
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His mouth was twisted into a purposeful half-grin, and his eyes happy about, and he said something about corroborating evidence, which made me sure he was showing off. (source)corroborating = supporting
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Psychiatric reports ... corroborate results of OZK series tapes. Subject A responded with consistency of earlier sessions. (source)corroborate = support (reinforce)
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Their evidence, corroborated by that of several friends, tends to show that Sir Charles's health has for some time been impaired, (source)corroborated = supported
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Mike looked around the room, as if he might see something to corroborate this, like icicles or penguins. (source)corroborate = support with additional evidence
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Your Honor, while no direct corroboration has yet been made, the minor has an established pattern of extreme dysfunctional behavior. (source)corroboration = additional evidence that supportsstandard 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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So it is not surprising to find that so many accusations against people are in the handwriting of Thomas Putnam, or that his name is so often found as a witness corroborating the supernatural testimony, or that his daughter led the crying-out at the most opportune junctures of the trials... (source)corroborating = supporting
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The single corroborative statement she'd gleaned ... was that no one had heard from or laid eyes on Boomer in over a week, possibly longer. (source)corroborative = supporting (of the theory)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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If he corroborates the story, we could cut a deal so he testifies. (source)corroborates = supports (tells a story consistent with)
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The certificates were regularly signed as extracts from the parish books, the first letter had a genuine appearance of having been written and preserved for some years, the handwriting of the second tallied with it exactly, (making proper allowance for its having been written by a person in extremity,) and there were several other corroboratory scraps of entries and memoranda which it was equally difficult to question.† (source)
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— uncorroborated word of a sergeant.† (source)uncorroborated = not supportedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncorroborated means not and reverses the meaning of corroborated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Mr. Cruncher had no particular meaning in these sulky corroborations, but made use of them, as people not unfrequently do, to express general ironical dissatisfaction.† (source)
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Police Sergeant Croly deposed that when he arrived he found the deceased lying on the platform apparently dead. He had the body taken to the waiting-room pending the arrival of the ambulance. Constable 57 corroborated. (source)corroborated = supported (the description of events)
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