Sample Sentences forsubstantiate (editor-reviewed)
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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Others said he was in a youth prison camp, although we couldn't substantiate this.† (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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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)
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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 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)
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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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Do we have any witnesses to substantiate these accusations?† (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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