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To strengthen a statement or finding with additional supporting evidence.

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corroborate

A second set of measurements helped corroborate the initial result.
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A campus journalist was investigating why a delivery missed the student book fair. Her firsthand account came from watching the driver wait at a locked entrance, rather than hearing the story from another reporter. A time-stamped message could corroborate her observation that the driver had requested access.
From What the Evidence Supports.
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