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verb

substantiate

CEFR C2

to provide evidence to support or prove the truth of something

In a sentence

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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