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  1. transitive verb To prove the truth of by presentation of evidence or testimony; substantiate.
  2. transitive verb To determine or test the truth or accuracy of, as by comparison, investigation, or reference: experiments that verified the hypothesis. See Synonyms at confirm.
  3. transitive verb Law To affirm formally or under oath.
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  • Somewhat inconsistently, footnote 2 on page 33 reports a third regression equation relating Sept-June rainfall to temperature as below (the running text appears to indicate that it was calculated by difference; I haven't tried to verify which is the case as it doesn't matter for present purposes): —  Climate Audit
  • "We tried it in the past, and we were not very happy with it," Brown says of E-verify, which is used by 80,000 companies in the United States. —  BlueOregon
  • Note: if you have been running Jython with -- verify, we have removed that option and defaulted to that classpath behavior. —  Planet Python
  • The no provision for e-verify, and will pump hundreds of billions of dollars into infrastructure boondoggles which will hire millions of unskilled workers. —  VDARE.com: Blog Articles
  • The Department of Homeland Security set up E-verify, a program that checks worker status electronically. —  Long Island Business News Products
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  1. Middle English verifien, from Old French verifier, from Medieval Latin vērificāre : Latin vērus, true; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficāre, -fy.

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  1. from Old French verifier, French vérifier = Spanish Portuguese verificar = Italian verificare, from Middle Latin verificare, make true, from Latin verus, true, + facere, do: see -fy.
 

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