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Six example sentences with substantiate, each labelled with its topic.
Three independent laboratories failed to substantiate the original result, and the journal withdrew the paper eleven months later.
Science
The committee asked her to substantiate the figure she had quoted, and she produced a spreadsheet nobody could fault.
Politics
A witness who cannot substantiate a single detail of the timeline will not persuade a jury of anything.
Law
Auditors asked the firm to substantiate each travel expense with a receipt, and a third of the claims quietly disappeared.
Finance
Investors wanted the founders to substantiate the growth chart with bank statements, not screenshots from a dashboard.
Startups
Decades of classroom studies failed to substantiate the claim that matching lessons to learning styles improves test scores.
Psychology
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