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.
  • One guy had a pile, one-foot high, of documentation about the Hall of Fame.
    Steve Miller, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The footage was just some of the documentation Hayek made to mark the milestone moment.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024
  • The Aztecs were a bigger empire and there's lots more documentation done on the Aztecs than there was the Mayans.
    Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2022
  • An audit means that the IRS will ask you for more documentation.
    Adriana Morga, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The change stands to impact many more Afghan refugees who may lack the documentation needed to stay in Pakistan.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
  • While care for each piece can vary greatly, documentation can help the process.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Once the inspections and documentation are done, the next step is to 'De-ICE' the vehicle.
    New Atlas, 10 Aug. 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
  • Lee Miller was a woman who contributed enormously to the visual documentation of the truths about the Nazi regime.
    Federica Polidoro, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The outcome of the charges against Lauren Hand is unclear because the documentation is not public.
    Moe Clark, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Then in 1966, within months of getting the documentation, he was drafted into the U.S. Army.
    Megan Burrow, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Yet the impact of the documentation requirements can cut both ways.
    New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • The photos and videos were a visual documentation of her story.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2022
  • Gama began to amass the documentation that the Diablos would need to apply for tourist visas.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
  • And none of the extensive Disney documentation makes any mention of Bucky, the lawyer argued.
    Andrew Dalton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025
  • What is the state of documentation of systems and processes?
    Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • For instance: Is there a lack of accurate documentation for the metal there?
    Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2024
  • And responses are much faster, of course, than having to ask a person or looking up in some documentation and find an answer there.
    New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The filmmaker then began what would turn into a five-year documentation of their lives.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Studio walked you through your first project, but the documentation does a decent enough job of answering many questions.
    Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
  • After the State Controller’s Office receives all required documentation, simple cash claims may be processed within 30 to 60 days, the agency said.
    Kendrick Marshall, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
  • This context, along with the documentation her lawyer gathered, which included interviews with her siblings showing how her imprisonment had impacted them, was enough for a judge to grant her release from prison.
    Nathaly Triana, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025

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