How to Use corroborate in a Sentence

corroborate

verb
  • But the numbers of people released to await court hearings don’t corroborate Pelosi’s statement, either.
    Maria Ramirez Uribe, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Using a network of dust sensors in the region, Lambert and his colleagues were able to corroborate the satellite data and push the trend back more than 20 years.
    Roland Pease, Science | AAAS, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Classmates who were at the party, however, could not corroborate Ford's allegations.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Ball also said the internal investigation didn’t turn up any witnesses or evidence that could corroborate the claim that anyone had brandished a firearm at the club.
    Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • PolitiFact also found no credible sources to corroborate the claim that Jill Biden mentioned a laptop.
    Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Bernstein was told in August that investigators could not find evidence to corroborate her account, the reports show.
    NBC News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • In the past, many women have told me that bringing someone along to their appointments — especially a male partner or family member — to help corroborate their symptoms was a tactic that helped.
    Ryan Prior, CNN, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Longer video footage sent by the law firm and obtained by The Post corroborates the order of events.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • They are seen as a way to corroborate Comey's account in Mueller's probe.
    Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 17 Mar. 2018
  • At first glance, this video seems to corroborate the claim.
    Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • What the video shows Aden insisted that deputies did not go to the wrong apartment, and that the video would corroborate that.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • And Netflix and phone records seemed to help corroborate his story … at least for a while.
    Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Tire markings on the road seemed to corroborate that account, the complaint said.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The video corroborates reports this groin injury is not nearly as bad as the one last year.
    Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • That probably should be done in writing to that the non-lawyer can corroborate that this was done.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The new videos appear to corroborate what was described in the Guardian report.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • The tools used on the carcass seem to corroborate this theory.
    John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2018
  • Witnesses and videos corroborate that the teenage girl stayed still while her mom screamed.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Put in pairs to corroborate each other’s results, the dogs got close-to-perfect scores.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020
  • On Tuesday night, the Free Press could not corroborate with police that a report was made a year ago.
    Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Reporters from the Times have not been able to corroborate the existence of such an order.
    Peter Baker and Charlie Savage, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • The study seems to corroborate claims that Musk manipulates the algorithm of the site to boost his own posts.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
  • On top of that, the other two pilots who were flying with Cassie at the time don’t corroborate her story.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Based on the prediction, the fiery streaks in the sky over Montana appear to corroborate that timing.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 July 2022
  • The Journal couldn’t corroborate the amount of the ransom payment.
    Robert McMillan, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • That’s corroborated by my mother, who didn’t know what to do with that.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Lester has unearthed a newspaper account of a home run Mays hit in 1948, but has not been able to corroborate it with a box score from the game.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
  • And yet, after over nine hours, the story has still not been corroborated and the divide over who is telling the truth remains.
    Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The woman’s friend corroborated that phone call to NBC News.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The reporting corroborates what people have told us off the record.
    Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 18 May 2018

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