testifies (to)

verb

Definition of testifies (to)next
present tense third-person singular of testify (to)
as in vouches (for)
to declare (something) to be true or genuine that auction house will always testify to a painting's authenticity

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  1. affirms
  2. certifies
  3. attests
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  • The book affirms the many ways to make a family and how those bonds hold us through loss and growth over time.
    Meghan Riordan Jarvis, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Moreover, reading Powers in this more difficult, demanding way affirms the imperative that Literature—recalcitrant in its ideas, characters, and storylines—should invite and sustain more of and from its readers.
    Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
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  • The 2022 Electoral Count Reform Act In every presidential election, each state certifies its results and appoints electors who meet in mid-December to cast votes for president and vice president.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The first candidate appeals that decision, but the other candidate's lawyers flood the court system with delay-inducing filings before the appeals courts can rule, and the governor certifies Georgia's electors for the second candidate when the deadline arrives.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of certifies
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  • The film starts with an air of mythic timelessness, in a subterranean home barely pierced by sunlight, in which an elderly woman attests to the dwindling of the population.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
  • However, Hall attests that as the hours got late, the parties tended to get wilder.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 14 Oct. 2024
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