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verified

[ver-uh-fahyd]

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adjective

confirmed as to accuracy or truth by acceptable evidence, action, etc.

Origin:
1585–95; verify + -ed²

Related forms

half-ver·i·fied, adjective

un·ver·i·fied, adjective

well-ver·i·fied, adjective

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But experts say that these claims are often murky and not always externally verified.

Macroevolution has never ever been empirically observed or verified.

Visa stamps from other countries can be verified against records in their immigration.

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But experts say that these claims are often murky and not always externally verified.

Macroevolution has never ever been empirically observed or verified.

Visa stamps from other countries can be verified against records in their immigration.

As part of this requirement, all processes and data must be independently verified by a third party.

Terminals in libraries and cybercafes would have to have verified sign-in rosters.

Cook described the pole in a way that was verified by all the people who came after him.

It provides direct access to verified and non verified businesses.

Baraka said that he would not resign and that the facts in his poem can be verified.

Travis given by campus officials, but officials have not verified that it was written by him.

Under both systems, absurd questions are asked but the answers are never verified.

Research has not verified substantial increased risk at this.

There is not a single verified measurement of a virtual particle.

They verified their results with high-speed video of seahorses and pipefish feeding.

But federal law said little about how these ballots should later be verified and counted.

The verified presence of a jaguar is yet another positive notch on this region's biodiversity belt.

The ownership would then be verified and the money returned, if the plane is indeed privately held.

It would be exciting because of verified proof on extraterrestial technological species, located somewhere in this galaxy.

Even in obscure subjects the match between a theoretical line and the experimental dots can be verified by anyone.

In their latest work, they verified that the blend of chemicals makes the lab animals feverish as well.

Lead poisoning can be verified only by a blood test.

The offer will not be released until the official copy of your transcript has been received and verified.

Show me the experimentally verified mechanisms for the runaway downwelling radiative imbalance.

They would have only accepted the original unedited file and that is easily verified by looking at the metadata.

Yet they cannot produce one verified example of migraine occurring in a person verified to be caffeine abstinent.

The video could not be immediately verified independently.

The report of fresh fighting also could not be verified.

If you claim to have a degree, it will be verified and your references will be checked.

All information in this magazine is verified to the best of the authors' and the publisher's ability.

Whether any of them are real or not cannot be verified although a few cases have interesting corroborating evidence.

Opinions matter more than experimentally verified facts.

In addition, civilian casualty and damage claims were paid only when they could be verified firsthand.

Important faxes should always be verified by the recipient.

In short, if you haven't verified the current status of a faculty member, asking about them in an interview will not help you.

It has not been verified at all because all the vital evidence was destroyed.

And general relativity has been experimentally verified countless of times.

He stayed that way for nine days with daily cleanings until it was verified that the stump was clean.

Before this happens, its effectiveness will need to be verified by other researchers.

Generalized accusations that unions make it difficult to fire bad teachers are never verified with actual case examples.

There will literally be thousands of people whose caste information cannot be verified but will have to be taken at face value.

We verified physiological models of extinction risk with observed local extinctions and extended projections worldwide.

Those discoveries were verified by drilling through the sand and by using space-borne radar.

These are simple facts that can be verified from more than one source.

They're technically not eligible, maybe--but their eligibility probably won't be verified.

Remember that there are still deniers of these verified theories and the laws they imply.

Unknown precisely because they have not verified yet.

In fact the increase in acidification is an easily verified measurement.

The fact is that sea levels are rising and that is a phenomena that is measurable and is verified as happening.

But that evidence has to be good evidence that is independently verified and precisely gathered and tested and then retested.

If the reverse is slower, then this experiment will only be verified with the same direction.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.

to ascertain the truth or correctness of, as by examination, research, or comparison: to verify a spelling.

to act as ultimate proof or evidence of; serve to confirm.

Law.

to prove or confirm (an allegation).

to state to be true, especially in legal use, formally or upon oath.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English verifien < Middle French verifier < Medieval Latin vērificāre, equivalent to vēri-, combining form of vērus true + -ficāre -fy

Related forms

ver·i·fi·a·bil·i·ty, ver·i·fi·a·ble·ness, noun

ver·i·fi·a·ble, adjective

ver·i·fi·er, noun

non·ver·i·fi·a·ble, adjective

pre·ver·i·fy, verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

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re·ver·i·fy, verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

un·ver·i·fi·a·bil·i·ty, noun

un·ver·i·fi·able, adjective

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Synonyms
2. authenticate, validate.

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Word Origin & History

verify

early 14c., from O.Fr. verifier, from M.L. verificare "make true," from L. verus "true" (see very) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious).

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