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  • adjective supported or established by evidence or proof.

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  • adjective Strengthened; confirmed; rendered more certain.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of corroborate.

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Examples

  • We ate our breakfast that morning with a fortune in gold coin under the table; and when the boat came down the river, bringing a quiet man whom Mr. Johnston introduced as the very person we were seeking, and who himself in quaint pidgin English corroborated the statement that he it was who had sent to Thomas Webster the five teakwood chests, we paid him the money and received in return his receipt beautifully written with small flourishes of the brush.

    The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

  • There are many sources of information that can be corroborated, which is important.

    Think Progress » Miami is “as bad as any ghetto in any Third World country,” 2006

  • ALLRED: And furthermore, I want to say most all of her testimony will be corroborated, which is unusual for a witness in a criminal case.

    CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2003 2003

  • Every witness who was called corroborated Anne de Cornault's statement that there were no dogs at Kerfol: had been none for several months.

    Kerfol. 1916

  • Every witness who was called corroborated Anne de Cornault's statement that there were no dogs at Kerfol: had been none for several months.

    The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 Edith Wharton 1899

  • However, when your word is corroborated by contemporaneous emails and phone logs, that may well tip the balance of the scales in your favor.

    Forbes.com: News Bill Singer 2011

  • Jane, how much weight can we give to these stories considering they now kind of corroborated and considering we still have so many unanswered questions?

    CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2009 2009

  • Jim shot a deputy marshal, and I kind of corroborated his side of the argument.

    Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886

  • I believe those early results have been corroborated by more recent testing.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited 2010

  • Investigators interviewed the two supervisors who Mr. Halloran alleged told him about the purported slowdown; Mr. Halloran refused to give DOI the names of the three workers who he alleged corroborated the slowdown theory.

    Blizzard Breakdown Michael Howard Saul 2011

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  • "We steal things together," Tom corroborated.

    December 14, 2007