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testify

[tes-tuh-fahy] / ˈtɛs təˌfaɪ /


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In a sixth-floor penthouse, the Future Fund team met with Bankman-Fried and the confidantes who would later testify against him.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is also expected to testify, according to court documents.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

He was there to testify to his ability to do so, and he provided yet another spectacle.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

He has crisscrossed the country in recent months to testify in suits against the corporation.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

My public defender means well, but there's no way I'm going to testify in an outfit designed by Liz Claiborne.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

But this week, as Warsh testifies before Congress for the first time as Fed chair, he will go before an audience of lawmakers who will want answers.

From MarketWatch Jul. 11, 2026

That Lionsgate is giving what might be their one and only team-up a wide release testifies to the studio’s confidence that it will be one of the defining stunt films of the decade.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

Congress will also get its first chance to publicly question administration officials under oath about the war when Army Secretary Dan Driscoll testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday.

From Barron's Apr. 13, 2026

Terrorist boasting testifies to our own moral decline.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

I don’t think I could say anything which better testifies to my depth of faith in Mr. Muhammad than that I totally and absolutely rejected my own intelligence.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Ladd testified that although he got an MGM Mike Tyson fight ticket from Suge Knight’s home, he found no proof in all his searches that Davis was in Las Vegas during the shooting.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Meta knew that its tools for protecting teenagers on Instagram were largely ineffective, other witnesses have testified.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

"In my experience, Take a Break is a feature that's designed to fail," Arturo Bejar, a former Meta engineering director, testified last week.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

“I would also like to say that I’m not Snoop Dogg,” he testified.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The only Friedman who testified at the trials was William.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

In recent days Meta, which has more than three billion users around the world, tried to block ex-Meta employee and expert witness, Arturo Bejar, from testifying.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

It also avoids witnesses appearing publicly and testifying about the bloody circumstances and history of Nick Reiner.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Deoudes and Rustici’s mother now find themselves testifying at the same local and state hearings, virtually and in-person, as the debate over bans versus regulation plays out across the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

At a time when Black people were often prohibited from testifying in court, habeas became a vehicle by which they could testify to the facts underlying their claims.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

“Bill Baxley, Alabama’s attorney general, reopened the case, and Chambliss’s own niece is testifying against him. He’s the first of the bombers to come to trial.”

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry




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