validate
Example Sentences
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To strengthen their conclusions, the researchers validated their findings using an independent set of human brain samples.
From Science Daily
It can take an official announcement—of a purge, promotion or policy shift—to validate a hypothesis.
Instead, on the biggest night of his young career, before an audience eager to see things it had never seen, and validate him as skating’s best ever, Malinin fell, then fell apart.
Numerous studies have found that in its eagerness to agree with the user, the model validated unhealthy or dangerous behaviour, and even led people to delusional thinking.
From BBC
Promising academic science can wither if researchers can’t fund the experiments to validate it, a phase often called the valley of death.
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