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adjective

as in confirmed

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verb

past tense of verify

as in argued

to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of the dispatcher was able to verify the caller's location

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Recent Examples of verified

Adjective

Instead, review your original payment account or contact the retailer using a verified phone number. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Good Earth Cotton’s model currently represents around 60,000 metric tons of physically verified fiber—enough to produce around 300 million t-shirts. — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026 An aunt identified the victim as Ka’Una Reed, 5, in a verified GoFundMe. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026 On the other hand, three of the papers have already been withdrawn after experts uncovered a significant error, causing some to question the more than half of the proofs that aren’t yet Lean-verified. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026 McKinsey has cited a life sciences company with about $4 billion in annual R&D procurement spend that ran an AI review covering roughly 10% of that spend and found 4% in verified leakage, more than $10 million. — Shaz Khan, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 In real life, there is no verified record that Murray’s team diagnosed Kaczynski with schizophrenia, much less told him so at Harvard. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026 The arrest came just hours after prosecutors filed a verified application asking the court to issue a warrant and modify Morphew's bond. — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 There is, however, no verified evidence of Agee on an NFL roster. — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

Verb

But their ballot is provisional, and it is not supposed to be counted until the voter is verified by state officials. — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Contemporary reporting, however, noted that no one had independently verified the shot. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026 Police have not verified either claim, and no motive has been established. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026 The claim that Ukraine has halted its strikes on energy sites could not be independently verified, but neither Russian officials nor media have reported Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries since the energy truce was announced. — Hanna Arhirova, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026 The account was verified and had the handle @miagoth_, but the Pearl and Maxxine actress famously does not use social media and has never had a public Instagram account. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026 As synthetic media makes convincing fake executives, statements and brand content easier to create, communicators must understand how content is verified and build authenticity into crisis communications, executive channels and brand content. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The election commission insists the purging of electoral rolls was to remove voters who have died, moved, or cannot otherwise be verified, and that those impacted can apply to be re-enrolled. — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026 But many of the results have already been verified in Lean—a programming language that validates a proof’s logic—and are therefore all but certain to be correct. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for verified

Adjective

Harford County residents on alert The confirmed case inside an elementary school has some Harford County residents concerned about the presence of wildlife in the community.

— Ashley Paul, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
The Ebola outbreak centered in the eastern Ituri province is the fastest-growing in the disease’s history and remains out of control with 5,713 confirmed cases, including 2,744 deaths, according to Congolese health authorities.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of confirmed

Adjective

Unfortunately, there’s no proven way to completely eliminate hallucinations from AI systems for now.

— Klaudia Zaika, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
In new guidance, the American Academy of Pediatrics says unpasteurized dairy is unsafe and offers no proven health benefits.

— Kathleen Felton, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of proven

Adjective

This latest round of funding supports an exciting range of projects from emerging creatives forging new paths to established voices exploring new creative territory.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Then, after weeks of sit-ins and marches, Dharmendra Pradhan, the education minister, stepped down, a rare blow to Modi’s government, and one that more established opposition parties had been unable to land.

— Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of established

Adjective

Watching games with base runners, tough at-bats and actual strategy by managers is much more enjoyable than strikeouts and home runs with no one on base.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Desperate for actual contact with Holmes, Fielder has arranged to meet her briefly at the prison before Evans shows up.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of actual

Adjective

Long-term national data has shown that states that have previously expanded access to SNAP benefits had reduced numbers of CPS investigations and substantiated reports of abuse and neglect, as well as fewer foster care placements.

— Sandy Santana, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026
The changes extend inquiries to credible complaints and investigations, rather than limiting them to matters used to support a substantiated investigation.

— Bryce Martin, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of substantiated

Adjective

While these tracks are endearing enough, Way Dynamic’s real magic sits at the juncture of folk and forlornness, when Young’s guitar is allowed to ramble and his regrets are sharp enough to bruise.

— Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026
These reactive oxygen species, or ROS, can do real damage to mitochondria, cells and organs.

— Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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