substantiatein a sentence
substantiate as in: substantiated by the report
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The accusation is inflammatory, and it is reckless since it cannot be substantiated.substantiated = supported with evidence
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She substantiated the claim with great detail in the appendix.substantiated = provided evidence that proves or supports
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"The point here," Langdon said, motioning back to the bookshelf, "is that all of these books substantiate the same historical claim." (source)substantiate = provide evidence that proves or supports
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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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Others said he was in a youth prison camp, although we couldn't substantiate this.† (source)
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Do we have any witnesses to substantiate these accusations?† (source)substantiate = provide evidence that proves or supports
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Indeed, academic studies have substantiated Mills's anxiety.† (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 supportsstandard 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)substantiates = provides evidence that proves or supports
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Facts, names, events, substantiations, back-ups...everything, including the story Webb told me last night.'† (source)
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And for some of these averments, he added, substantiating proof was not far.† (source)substantiating = providing evidence that proves or supports
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There's enough evidence here to substantiate the fact that you knew this necklace was stolen, and you took it anyway.'† (source)substantiate = provide evidence that proves or supports
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I knew that the mouse—wolf relationship was a revolutionary one to science and would be treated with suspicion, and possibly with ridicule, unless it could be so thoroughly substantiated that there would be no room to doubt its validity.† (source)
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Every year there are hundreds of unsubstantiated sightings of monstrous creatures in land, air, and sea and we feel it is our duty as men of science to gently remind you that your grandfather was not trained, and in his state of health, he may have suffered additional deficiencies of observation.† (source)unsubstantiated = without evidence that proves or supports
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