Example Sentences

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Given that several rockets had previously blown up on launch, he needed every bit of his well-attested phlegm before eventually making history a month later.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2016

The idea that the artist seeks immortality through his work is a well-attested one, stylishly encapsulated by Jean-Pierre Melville, playing the thinly fictionalized Parvulesco the Writer in Jean-Luc Godard’s A Bout De Souffle.

From Forbes • Jul. 11, 2014

Behind the story of “Giselle” lie the still dismaying, well-attested historical accounts of dance mania that caused deaths in the Rhineland in the late medieval and early Renaissance eras.

From New York Times • May 29, 2011

He has a well-attested fascination with the gung-ho world of deep-water exploration.

From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2011

Philosophers have too often, in the past, permitted themselves to pronounce on empirical questions, and found themselves, as a result, in disastrous conflict with well-attested facts.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand