Used in a Sentence

corroborated

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for corroborated.

Editorial note

It will be interesting to see if his story is corroborated in the weeks and months to come.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Strengthened; confirmed; rendered more certain.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of corroborated gathered in one view.

adjective

Strengthened; confirmed; rendered more certain.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for corroborated.

Example sentences

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It will be interesting to see if his story is corroborated in the weeks and months to come.

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After being informed of these suspicions, Facebook corroborated much of the team’s work by erasing 1,730 of the likes.

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There have even been cases wherein the Bible was presumed wrong, but later corroborated by archaeological evidence.

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This was corroborated by both PCWorld (...) and our direct contact at Intelligent Memory this morning.

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Any US, or likely even Pakistani, officials interviewed by the media would likely have corroborated the Obama administraiton's original story.

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This point is corroborated in work by Ludwig (1997), who also finds compelling evidence that prior authors’ instruments are weak.

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Defendant explained that the screaming took place in the course of enthusiastic sexual activity and Defendant's girlfriend corroborated this explanation.

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The ratio of drones vs new queens is difficult to measure, because a new queen means that the colony splits, so the theoretical 3/4 is difficult to be corroborated.

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I have no evidence to support this, but it has been corroborated by people you can easily search for.

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The app described in the article doesn't rely on network effects at all but it's nice to see my gut instinct corroborated experimentally.

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That was, essentially, why the case was lost: for all the things said, nothing of substance could be corroborated.

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This article also fails to mention anything about how the dangers of meat are greatly over exaggerated and not corroborated by modern science.

Quote examples

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I have a number of bookmarks to incredibly insightful posts, whose usefulness has been corroborated by literally hundreds of people...all closed because they are deemed "off-topic" or some such by an admin.

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WhiteHat executes the "open source the project and make like that's an outcome we are happy about" play, using language which --- corroborated a bit by this post --- signals that the project has been abandoned.

Proper noun examples

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(Corroborated in the Japanese version of their docs released by the bankruptcy trustee.) Many in the community believed that they had promised not to do this (true) and they this was impressively unprincipled (I lean against this understanding).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use corroborated in a sentence?

It will be interesting to see if his story is corroborated in the weeks and months to come.

What does corroborated mean?

Strengthened; confirmed; rendered more certain.

What part of speech is corroborated?

corroborated is commonly used as adjective.