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validate

[val-i-dayt] / ˈvæl ɪˌdeɪt /


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"Our flight test team ran a disciplined, methodical campaign to validate every system," said Chris Payne, general manager for 737 airplane development programs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

I love that you validate gossip as part of the excavation process for making sure you’re having the right fight with the right information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Juice's journey to Jupiter provides only a few opportunities to calibrate and validate the instruments under well-understood environmental conditions," explains Juice project scientist Claire Vallat, who led the effort.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Revenue could be weighted toward 4Q due to the time needed to validate locally sourced chip equipment components, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Okay, before I go on, please note: what I’m about to say in no way diminishes what we’ve talked about in the past, nor does it validate that ‘just a phase’ thing I mentioned earlier.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

"It was built upon foundational basic research at the Salk Institute, validates those preclinical findings in patients, and provides a road map for future studies that could someday establish a new treatment standard."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

“We agree the win validates the appropriateness of the adjuvant setting for a vaccine,” Leerink Partners analyst Daina Graybosch wrote in a note on Thursday.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

For residents and community groups, the report validates what they’ve been experiencing firsthand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

“Every flight validates assumptions and uncovers opportunities for improvement.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

If you have a heterogeneous class make up of many different ethnicities, abilities, races, providing activities validates who they are as people, and sends a message that their voices are valued.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The research team then used a validated food database to calculate how much Neu5Gc participants were likely consuming based on the measured amounts of the sugar in different foods.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Flannery added: "I wish, in my political heart, it was all now irrelevant. But with my vanity and my desire to be listened to as a writer, I do feel validated."

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

So far, users have submitted over 350,000 observations, about half of which have been validated and paid for.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

A key measure of consumer prices rose more than expected in August, breaking two months of improvement that had tentatively validated the Fed’s own forecast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Rowan had never felt so valued and validated.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

During the pandemic, when Wolf quit her 9-to-5 job and had the opportunity to focus on music, she began releasing songs regularly online to a slow and validating growth, selling out her first postpandemic concert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

A messy legal battle ensued, and earlier this month the Missouri Supreme Court sided with the petitioners, finding Hoskins in contempt while validating the legality of the referendum petition.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The results mark the first successful late-stage trial for a personalized mRNA cancer therapy, validating decades of research into custom treatments engineered specifically for an individual’s tumor mutations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Layla says she has always given herself a hard time for not "coming up to scratch" but that taking part in the research project has felt "validating and freeing".

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

This turned out to be the big revelation for me about counseling: No validating went on.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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