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I can confirm that I'm getting my speeds of 20MBit/s down, and yet almost every video on YouTube buffers.

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establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

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establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

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strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"

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make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for confirm.

verb

establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"

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strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"

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make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"

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support a person for a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

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administer the rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

Example sentences

I can confirm that I'm getting my speeds of 20MBit/s down, and yet almost every video on YouTube buffers.

Am I the only one tired over how TorrentFreak will say anything, related or not, to try to confirm their bias?

If I use youtube-dl to download the video, I can confirm that my actual connection speed is somewhere around 60KB/s.

It had been decided that only relying on GPS was a risk, and that independent radar images would be necessary to confirm position, course, and speed.

Not being an employee of the NSA, he also can't confirm that Palantir Finance hasn't been repurposed to conceal the existence of space aliens captured from Area 51.

During the process, you'll need to Alt+Tab to the new prompt window to hit enter every time you need to confirm something.- Once guest additions is installed, use the start menu to restart the virtual machine.

So any member of the population can take the public database and confirm that the arithmetic was done properly on the encrypted vote tallies, without figuring out what the actual votes were.

It didn't help that it turned out the CIA were running "fake" vaccination campaigns to gather information though - that would have helped confirm suspicions in the eyes of anyone, not just the uneducated.

"One way to confirm or deny this hypothesis would be to look at companies that previously were high-performing, and then see what the correlation between CEO pay and the change in market performance is within that group.