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corroborate
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Enrique's Journey
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- All this ... helped corroborate Enrique's story.
Chpt Prol. *corroborate = support -- typically with additional evidence or testimony
- The recalled scenes and conversations were corroborated, whenever possible, by one or more individuals present.†
Chpt notescorroborated = supported
- His information was corroborated by Aldo Pumariega, principal at the Bellagio Road Newcomer School; Bradley Pilon, a psychologist who counsels immigrant students in the Los Angeles Unified School District; and Rafael Martanez, director of Casa YMCA, a migrant shelter in Piedras Negras, Mexico.†
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- Several of Lourdes's Long Beach friends were also interviewed and corroborated how they and Lourdes had been scammed by a woman claiming she could help them become legal residents.†
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- Enrique's attempt to reach his mother in 1999 was corroborated by Jose del Carmen Bustamante, his companion on the journey.†
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- Enrique's account of the Nuevo Laredo jail was corroborated by Raymundo Ramos Vasquez at the human rights group Comite de Derechos Humanos, Grupo 5 de Febrero.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(corroborate) to support an opinion -- typically with additional evidence or testimony
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)