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verify

to make sure or demonstrate that something is true or accurate

In a sentence

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

  • Auditors verify every invoice above ten thousand dollars against a shipping record before the quarter can be closed.

    Finance

  • Two independent letters from the same week let historians verify that the treaty was signed before the harvest, not after.

    History

  • Before publishing the image the editor asked the reporter to verify where and when the shot was actually taken.

    Photography

  • Before writing any code, the founders tried to verify that restaurants would actually pay for the booking tool.

    Startups

  • Fact-checkers could not verify the candidate's claim about jobs, since the figures came from a report nobody could find.

    Politics

  • The installer will verify the download against a published checksum before it writes a single file to disk.

    Technology

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