Sample Sentences for
substantiate
(editor-reviewed)

substantiate as in:  substantiated by the report

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    Others said he was in a youth prison camp, although we couldn't substantiate this.†  (source)
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    Nothing was offered to substantiate these allegations, but that was not unusual in the suing business.†  (source)
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    When he did open his mouth and let the world know what was really happening while they went about daily life as if all was just peachy, he would have to substantiate his claims with his own data, not data that pointed to Theresa.†  (source)
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    If so, this would substantiate our view that the tapes were made inside the borders of Gilead, rather than outside, to be smuggled back for use by the Mayday underground.†  (source)
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    But Mrs. Lish had never substantiated the charge that Owen had been anti-Semitic.†  (source)
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    Hundreds of black men have been lynched for even unsubstantiated suggestions of such intimacy.  (source)
    unsubstantiated = without evidence that proves or supports
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsubstantiated means not and reverses the meaning of substantiated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    In utter disbelief Catherine had demanded substantiation and by 2:15 had twice read the State Department's lengthy and top-secret dossier on Sheng Chou Yang, but she continued to strenuously object as the accuracy could not be verified.†  (source)
    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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    He never grants interviews, never denies or substantiates anything written about him.†  (source)
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    And in charging these things, the people of the State of New York expect to, and will, produce before you substantiations of every one of them.†  (source)
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    And for some of these averments, he added, substantiating proof was not far.†  (source)
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    Stories of that kind are hard to substantiate.†  (source)
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    She substantiated her claim with made-up stories of how he watched me when I wasn't paying attention.†  (source)
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    GUIL: But ROS: You march in here without so much as a by-your-leave and expect me to take in every lunatic you try to pass off with a lot of unsubstantiated GUIL: We've got a letter ROS snatches it and tears it open.†  (source)
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