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confirm

CEFR B1

establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

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Six example sentences with confirm, each labelled with its topic.

  • A second laboratory repeated the experiment to confirm the result, and its numbers matched the first team's within one percent.

    Science

  • The doctor ordered a scan to confirm what the blood work suggested, since one test alone is rarely enough.

    Medicine

  • Call the guesthouse the night before to confirm the booking, because their online calendar has been wrong twice this month.

    Travel

  • Two witnesses confirmed the timeline, and the security footage put the delivery van at the gate at exactly eight.

    Law

  • Server logs confirmed what the users had reported: every crash happened seconds after the update check ran.

    Technology

  • The auditor's report confirmed the returns the fund had advertised, matching every figure to a bank statement.

    Finance

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