How to Use documentation in a Sentence

documentation

noun
  • Can you provide documentation of the claims you're making?
  • You cannot visit the country unless you have the proper documentation.
  • Keep your receipts as documentation of your purchases.
  • The program's documentation is poorly written.
  • The statement said prosecutors are still seeking full documentation of the defense’s claims.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The footage was just some of the documentation Hayek made to mark the milestone moment.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024
  • An audit means that the IRS will ask you for more documentation.
    Adriana Morga, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Once the inspections and documentation are done, the next step is to 'De-ICE' the vehicle.
    New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Levey, who didn’t keep documentation of his side of the bartering, acknowledges that a less absent-minded customer would have demanded clearer accounting.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The Exxon Valdez proved to Janka the power of visual documentation.
    J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
  • And after everyone is safe, the bystander should ask the victim what to do with the documentation.
    oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
  • You will be asked to give them certain documentation, such as copies of check stubs and medical records.
    Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 3 June 2024
  • The town could not provide documentation for the cancellation of those meetings, the SBOA said.
    Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2023
  • The narrative is the only documentation Cox has been able to get about the circumstances of his brother’s death.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Gama began to amass the documentation that the Diablos would need to apply for tourist visas.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
  • For instance: Is there a lack of accurate documentation for the metal there?
    Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The filmmaker then began what would turn into a five-year documentation of their lives.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Thus, the Politkofsky was perhaps on-site for the occasion though the documentation is uncertain.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • This kind of documentation was like manna for the Dominion team.
    David Enrich, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The writing is bracing, painful in its clinical documentation, laced with a sense of guilt and the utter futility of that guilt.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Conze believes the flurry of inspections and fines are about more than documentation.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Many sources cite California in the 1960s as its birthplace, but with little documentation to back that up.
    Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But before any of that could happen, Mando, who had been living in the US without documentation, needed to secure a visa.
    Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But Trump has denied wrongdoing and Tacopina said there is no documentation of false business records.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • To us, that holds far more weight than any paper documentation or colonial record keeping ever could.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In the aftermath of the raid, von Braun himself sifted through the flaming wreckage, trying to save the most important documentation.
    David Axe, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • You're supposed to do that every two hours and there's no documentation ... that it actually was done.
    John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2023
  • There is documentation of newborn heart transplant patients that are more than 40 years old.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
  • How much, if at all, has your sense of empathy for these people changed through the therapeutic process, either in your personal life or in the documentation of the show?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • Those voters have until noon 10 days after the election to follow up with their county election board to provide necessary documentation or complete an affidavit.
    Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2024

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