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  • Do we have any witnesses to substantiate these accusations?†   (source)
  • You will be pleased," he said, "to find your careful notes substantiated your grandfather's sightings and made the difference.†   (source)
  • Vlad forced a smile, not wanting to cause any more damage or to do anything that might substantiate any possible claims that he was a bloodthirsty monster.†   (source)
  • None of this can be substantiated.†   (source)
  • Nothing was offered to substantiate these allegations, but that was not unusual in the suing business.†   (source)
  • Each of them had been extensively examined with respect to authentic credentials and fully substantiated business or personal reasons for entering the country.†   (source)
  • My husband taught me well: everything is negotiable. editor's note: bookkeeping records substantiate ellen rimbauer's claim of firing the thirty-four staff members for a period of four months. during that time it is believed she lived in rose red completely alone and without a single visitor. whatever her mental state going into this solitude, she came out the worse for wear. over the subsequent two months, she reinstated a staff of twenty. she threw parties. at the last, 1946's annual…†   (source)
  • But while Rush substantiated so much that Adams liked to believe about the meaning of friendship, another old friend, Mercy Otis Warren, hurt and provoked him as no one had in years, and without warning.†   (source)
  • He never grants interviews, never denies or substantiates anything written about him.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Nor did she fabricate something or distort anything important; it is easy to substantiate nearly everything she told Nathan that evening.†   (source)
  • Stories of that kind are hard to substantiate.†   (source)
  • In view of the fact that the charges against the schoolmistress of the village Ignatodvortsy have not been substantiated, the army soviet proposes …†   (source)
  • Mabbott does not substantiate this claim, but it is surely not unreasonable.   (source)
    substantiate = provide evidence that proves or supports
  • At CERN we call it 'Substantiate or suffocate.'†   (source)
  • As if to substantiate Sato's portentous tone, the mantel clock began chiming the hour.†   (source)
  • The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!†   (source)
  • He thought doctors often drew conclusions that they could not substantiate.†   (source)
  • ,"Can anyone substantiate that you were in your room sleeping at that time?"†   (source)
  • The fact is, you can't substantiate any of this," Raison said.†   (source)
  • So, how she could have anyone substantiate her whereabouts at—†   (source)
  • Substantiate or suffocate, Ms.†   (source)
  • And you can substantiate this?†   (source)
  • When he did open his mouth and let the world know what was really happening while they went aboutdaily 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)
  • Now there were more than a few people whispering to each other to see if anyone knew what "substantiate" meant.†   (source)
  • There was no substantial evidence then, and none has been produced since the trial, to substantiate a defense of insanity.†   (source)
  • And if you did, you could be claiming to have been tipped off by some angel to substantiate this other story.†   (source)
  • They were experiencing what each of them had always longed for …. an assurance of the beyond …. a substantiation of the power of the Creator.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Whatever might surface from whatever source would be categorized and substantiated as the incoherent ramblings of a crippled, psychopathic alcoholic.†   (source)
  • First, naturally, there'll be the trip to the Caymans, where, I'm told, there are excellent tailors; then perhaps a clever little yacht and a small charter business that can be substantiated as having been moved from Tierra del Fuego or the Malvinas, some godforsaken place where a little money can produce an identity and a highly credible if obscure past.†   (source)
  • Facts, names, events, substantiations, back-ups… everything, including the story Webb told me last night.'†   (source)
  • He would not, of course, commit himself, but he made enough generalizations to substantiate my suspicions.†   (source)
  • While the late Archbishop was Chancellor, he wholeheartedly supported the King's designs: this is an important point, which, if necessary, I can substantiate.†   (source)
  • Her dull, cowed, and listless manner for days seemed to substantiate all this.†   (source)
  • She will never be able to substantiate the charge.†   (source)
  • And for some of these averments, he added, substantiating proof was not far.†   (source)
  • The fact that nobody could substantiate this report was, of course, nothing against its secret currency.†   (source)
  • Vague rumors, a few words here and there, unauthenticated stories, were all Duane had gathered in years to substantiate his belief—that Jennie died shortly after the beginning of her second captivity.†   (source)
  • And at once this suspicion was sufficient, not only to make him sexually curious in regard to all the details of the life and courtship that had led to this—but also very anxious to substantiate for himself whether his suspicions were true.†   (source)
  • 'And you don't object to their being looked at here, so that these people may be convinced of your power to substantiate your claim at once in law and reason, and you may resume your control over your own son without more delay.†   (source)
  • To this proposition the physician made no reply; but he was observed to cast his eyes around him, as if to enumerate the witnesses, in order to substantiate this promise also, at a future day, should it prove necessary.†   (source)
  • It merely remains for me to substantiate these accusations; and then, with my ill-starred family, to disappear from the landscape on which we appear to be an encumbrance.†   (source)
  • Nor is nature so poor, but she gives me this joy several times, and thus we weave social threads of our own, a new web of relations; and, as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by-and-by stand in a new world of our own creation, and no longer strangers and pilgrims is a traditionary globe.†   (source)
  • Lionel then goes on to impute the shock to an earthquake, and seems to substantiate the imputation by stating that a great earthquake, somewhere about that time, did actually do great mischief along the Spanish land.†   (source)
  • But though we cannot find the god under this disguise of a sutler, yet, on the other hand, we cannot forgive the poet if he spins his thread too fine, and does not substantiate his romance by the municipal virtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity and pity.†   (source)
  • He substantiates every word.†   (source)
  • Substantiated by MacQueen and conductor.†   (source)
  • Substantiated by conductor except for period 1 to 1.†   (source)
  • And I would read him the letter—reading slowly and pronouncing each word with extreme care—telling him that his claims for a pension had not been substantiated and that his application had been rejected.†   (source)
  • Evidence against her or suspicious circumstances-Story of man in her compartment is substantiated by the evidence of Hardman and that of the woman Schmidt.†   (source)
  • It is well substantiated, and now I too think the doorkeeper must have been deceived.†   (source)
  • In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts.†   (source)
  • "That is well substantiated," said K., who had been repeating some parts of the priest's explanation to himself in a whisper.†   (source)
  • In the course of his studies, this sidetracked civil servant had succeeded in convincing himself that the proofs science claimed substantiated the impossibility of this construction were invalid and that Providence had removed him, Paravant, from the world of the living below and brought him here, because it had chosen him to grab hold of that transcendent goal and drag it down into earthly realms of exact realization.†   (source)
  • ONE of the things that Roberta soon found was that her intuitive notions in regard to all this were not without speedy substantiation.†   (source)
  • At first indeed he was naturally for summoning that substantiation of his allegations which Claggart said was at hand.†   (source)
  • He was wondering now again whether he was dealing with a truthful girl or whether his first suspicions were being substantiated.†   (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 Clyde, seeing that the truth concerning these, Sondra being within call, was capable of being substantiated here and now, replied: "No, I don't deny that those are from her."†   (source)
  • And then Mason, blazing with his conviction that Clyde was a murderer of the coldest and blackest type, and spending an entire day in riddling the "spider's tissue of lies and unsupported statements" with which the defense was hoping to divert the minds of the jury from the unbroken and unbreakable chain of amply substantiated evidence wherewith the prosecution had proved this "bearded man" to be the "red-handed murderer" that he was.†   (source)
  • Some were perusing the article, others making comments and recalling circumstances which substantiated the charges still more.†   (source)
  • Her presence so exceptionally substantiated the girl's utmost hopes that she almost feared her good fortune.†   (source)
  • These incidents, however, dissolving in the pure light of her character, had no longer the efficacy of facts, but were acknowledged as mistaken fantasies, by whatever testimony of the senses they might appear to be substantiated.†   (source)
  • I should like to conclude the chapter with the above appeal, but cannot, owing to my anxiety to repel a charge often made against whalemen, and which, in the estimation of some already biased minds, might be considered as indirectly substantiated by what has been said of the Frenchman's two whales.†   (source)
  • And hence not only at substantiated times, upon well known separate feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in crossing the widest expanses of water between those grounds he could, by his art, so place and time himself on his way, as even then not to be wholly without prospect of a meeting.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of black men have been lynched for even unsubstantiated suggestions of such intimacy.†   (source)
    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.
  • We try not to burden the committee with unsubstantiated data.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • A guy like Nicholas Jenks — public, connected you don't go around making unsubstantiated accusations."†   (source)
  • This statement contains wild and unsubstantiated accusations against a number of people, in particular against her guardian, Advokat Bjurman, and Dr. Peter Teleborian.†   (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)
  • But finding these unsubstantiated mind visions a little too much, he finally got up and throwing off his clothes climbed into his iron cot.†   (source)
  • How was a glyphic comparison of the phonic symbols of both languages made in substantiation of the oral comparison?†   (source)
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