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To establish that something is sound or supported.

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validate

Independent records helped validate the historian's account.
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Sera wrote that the note was presumably added by a previous owner because its handwriting resembled that owner's annotations elsewhere in the collection, but she marked that explanation as an assumption. She would need further records to validate the proposed chain of ownership.
From A Letter and Three Kinds of Uncertainty.
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