VERIFIES Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

verifies

verb

present tense third-person singular of verify

as in confirms

to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of the dispatcher was able to verify the caller's location

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Recent Examples of verifies Lawmakers would still need to debate how the government verifies that a kill switch works. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Any new agreement will have to specify who verifies what, in what order, and what happens when a ship is hit. — Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 30 July 2026 The channel that delivered the message can never be the channel that verifies it. — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Clear+ recently launched eGates , a system that verifies identity in under five seconds using facial recognition without the need for a human operator. — Justin Zacks, CNBC, 21 July 2026 On Kalshi, an internal team verifies outcomes against source reporting — typically within 12 hours of confirmation — with payouts landing about three hours after that; winners take $1 per winning share. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026 The admission team then verifies insurance coverage, which can happen quickly, and then works to make the process available to a patient who is ready to begin. — K.h. Koehler, Ascend Agency, 1 July 2026 When a bartender goes missing, Ohm descends into both his own history and that of this Overlook Hotel–esque setting in a film that verifies the suspicion that McCarthy is one of the best genre directors currently working. — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 June 2026 This program verifies magnet performance before the parts are locked into the main reactor. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026

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An Irregular spokesperson confirms to PEOPLE that the company is investigating how to securely run cybersecurity tests with AI agents.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
Research confirms that affirming personal values significantly reduces stress and rumination, even proactively.

— Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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Crump argues that the punch itself is not in dispute, citing an incident report written by Arellano which describes the punch.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2026
Conventional time-management advice, Schore argues, focuses almost exclusively on visible behaviors—meetings, email volume, scheduling techniques and collaboration practices.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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