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• v  declare or make legally valid
• v  prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
• v  give evidence for
• v  make valid or confirm the validity of
• s  serving to support or corroborate

• The war ultimately required a "surge" of 30,000 additional troops beginning in January 2007, validating Shinseki's premonition.
• StubHub benefits because the team markets the website to its most loyal customers, validating the operation.
• There is another major miracle-validating body in the Catholic world: the International Medical Committee for the shrine at Lourdes.

• validate
• formalize
• formalise
• corroborate
• collateral
• confirmative
• confirming
• confirmatory
• corroborative
• corroboratory
• substantiating
• substantiative
• validatory
• verificatory
• verifying

• invalidate

News & Articles

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• New Data Validates Good Start Genetics’ Proprietary Next Generation Sequencing Technology
  Good Start Genetics®, Inc., an innovative molecular diagnostics company delivering best-in-class tests for routine genetic screening, announced that the journal Genetics in Medicine published a study online today validating the company’s powerful, proprietary next-generation DNA sequencing approach.
  June 13, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• House, Senate override governor’s veto
  Gov. Mike Pence’s desire to have legislators sustain his veto of a measure “legalizing and validating” overpayment of $1.1 million in a special local income tax in Jackson County failed to draw much support Wednesday.
  June 12, 2013 - The Seymour Tribune
• United Technologies Wins $648.8 Million for F-35 Engine Testing
  Navy is extended timeline for validating the new engine's design.        
  June 11, 2013 - The Motley Fool

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in ABC News
  This vote is a choice between validating the same failed policy in Iraq that has cost us so many lives and demanding a new one,Obama said in a statement. "And I am demanding a new one."
• James Oberg in USA Today
  Today marks the end of an extensive process with the outcome being a decision by one of the world's largest, most conservative banks, HSBC, to take the validating step of investing in a private company intent on bringing innovation to the... Shai Agassi http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH3rK7wK_x64EFeq3SGOxcqZF-10A Jerusalem Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fcid%3D1263147972069%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHLM2PMqesjcqxwiUBMuOzuvs5f7Q Jan 25, 2010 107047 140254 validating Doing 'moon probes' advertises a country's technological level and that's good for high-tech exports, and for validating the threat-level of its high-tech weapons," Oberg said in recent comments to The Associated Press.