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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)
  • 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)
  • Nothing was offered to substantiate these allegations, but that was not unusual in the suing business.†  (source)
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  • Stories of that kind are hard to substantiate.†  (source)
  • But Mrs. Lish had never substantiated the charge that Owen had been anti-Semitic.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • He never grants interviews, never denies or substantiates anything written about him.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • And for some of these averments, he added, substantiating proof was not far.†  (source)
  • Do we have any witnesses to substantiate these accusations?†  (source)
  • She substantiated her claim with made-up stories of how he watched me when I wasn't paying attention.†  (source)
  • 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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