(v. t.) To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.
(v. t.) To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.
(v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke.
(n.) Witness; testimony; attestation.
Example Sentences:
(1) I do not warm to Scudamore, as much of my prior and subsequent output would attest.
(2) The improvement in the condition of patients who had been operated on was attested by the results of ECG, polycardiography, and external respiration tests.
(3) Although stability does not imply rigidity or impossibility of change, the strength of prediction found in these data attest to the "force of habit" that community interventions can encounter.
(4) The objective is to comment on some plausible mutual implications of generally attested pathologies and normal models of lexical retrieval for production, particularly with respect to the roles of semantic and syntactic categories.
(5) … In response to the shooting of Kharkiv mayor Gennady Kernes Everything happening now in Ukraine attests to the immediate need to disarm all militant groups, beginning with the Right Sector fighters, and to begin real, and not simulated, work of constitutional reform in the Ukrainian government and a search for international agreement.
(6) We counted all type I fibers and determined type I and II mean fiber areas in eight equidistant sections taken along the length of control and overloaded MG. Increase in muscle weights (31%), as well as in total muscle cross-sectional areas (37%) and fiber areas (type I, 57%; type II, 34%), attested to a significant hypertrophic response in overloaded MG. An increase in type I fiber composition of MG from 7.0 to 11.5% occurred as a result of overload, with the greatest and only statistically significant changes (approximately 70-100%) being found in sections taken from the most rostral 45% of the muscle length.
(7) The data attest to much social, rather than purely cognitive learning, of beliefs about smoking among children.
(8) Even though numerous studies attest the short-term in vitro efficacy of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides as inhibitors of tumour growth, the use of these compounds as therapeutic agents awaits a more rigorous demonstration of their long term effects and favourable pharmacological properties.
(9) As compared to the standard diet, the high sucrose diet induced an increase of the in vivo insulin response to an intravenous load and deteriorated the glucose tolerance as attested by significantly lower rates of glucose disappearance (K values, p less than 0.001).
(10) Analysis of the data obtained attests to the similar (in terms of the times of the healing of gastric and duodenal ulcers) clinical efficacy of the methods under comparison.
(11) The follow-up ECG also attested to the good judgment of the physician in the emergency room.
(12) In addition, the improved growth and healing of rickets further attest to the efficacy of the new treatment.
(13) In the authors' opinion, despite the high insulin content, the reduced level of C-peptide attests to hypofunction of beta-cells in acute intestinal infection, since it reflects their function more precisely.
(14) Survival of samples of patients' adrenal medullary tissue for 2 weeks in tissue culture attested to the viability of the graft at the time of transplantation.
(15) Disorders revealed in the patients with the akinetico-rigid form often attest to the dysfunction of the frontal parts of the brain.
(16) Eight deaths and liver rupture in 18 patients attest to the seriousness of this new potentially lethal adverse phenomenon.
(17) This case attests to the remarkable ability of the coronary artery to completely heal from a major wall trauma.
(18) In situ hybridizations and Northern transfer analyses with human-sequence-specific cDNAs encoding collagenous and noncollagenous protein sequences demonstrated selective expression of different matrix genes by these two cell types, indicating different biosynthetic capacities of these cells and attesting to the specificity of the hybridizations.
(19) In primary cultures of Kupffer cells obtained from surgical biopsies of human liver by collagenase perfusion followed by centrifugal elutriation and infected with HIV, the virus multiplied abundantly, as attested by the appearance of a reverse transcriptase activity in the medium.
(20) The clinical and laboratory data obtained point to the presence in some patients with visceral candidiasis of parathyroid, thyroid, pancreatic and adrenocortical dysfunctions, attesting to their importance in the disease pathogenesis.
Vouch
Definition:
(v. t.) To call; to summon.
(v. t.) To call upon to witness; to obtest.
(v. t.) To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
(v. t.) To back; to support; to confirm; to establish.
(v. t.) To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
(v. i.) To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
(v. i.) To assert; to aver; to declare.
(n.) Warrant; attestation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macfarlane said he did not leak the contents of last week’s cabinet meeting - but he appeared to vouch for the veracity of the reported divisions when he added: “There has certainly been some very accurate statements made in newspapers in relation to the discussions that were had in cabinet.” The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, said the leak “absolutely did not come from me” and although it was not the first cabinet in Australian history to have had leaks “this was particularly disappointing because it went into such detail”.
(2) One rally in Chicago was cancelled after thousands of demonstrators surrounded the venue and the secret service could no longer vouch for the candidate’s safety.
(3) For the next two years, Khakrezwal said, he and other commanders would vouch for their men and send them to Ahmed Wali, who would supply them to the Kandahar Strike Force, a paramilitary unit working in tandem with the CIA.
(4) I can vouch for the importance of that since I still have my own dog-eared copy of the original paperback edition of Look Back in Anger.
(5) If they can’t, they’ll continue to grow in capacity.” For years, US military leaders publicly vouched for the performance and integrity of the Iraqi security forces they nurtured, trained and equipped.
(6) Later that year, Congress passed the Protected National Security Documents Act, to suppress any Bush-era photographs of detainees in military custody unless the defense secretary could vouch that their release would have minimal consequences for US troops.
(7) "I can't vouch for how much so, but as I never met Larry I only know Lana, who is, to me, very much a woman."
(8) Talese does note in the book that “I cannot vouch for every detail that he recounts in his manuscript”.
(9) To his credit, Talese described Foos as an “inaccurate and unreliable narrator” and admitted: “I cannot vouch for every detail that he recounts in his manuscript.” But this was all the more reason to pin Foos down on his deceptions.
(10) "I can certainly vouch for the accuracy of the material in the departmental video; I can't say the same for Mr Albanese's presentation," Mrdak told the rural and regional affairs and transport committee.
(11) "[Peppiatt] refers to a Kelly Brook story – in fact he approached and offered the newspaper that story, vouched for its accuracy, and then asked for and received an extra freelance fee for doing so," the statement said.
(12) Without anyone to vouch for her, she went to 10 different schools where she was told her she could not be enrolled without a guardian’s consent, before the 11th agreed.
(13) Trump dossier: intelligence sources vouch for credibility of report's author Read more What is the origin of the Russian dossier?
(14) Wolf answers: "Like many charities, we have donors who wish to remain anonymous", but she is happy to vouch that the organisation has never received cash from "profit-making schools companies".
(15) I can only vouch for the R&R to be found in its calm, otherworldly landscape.
(16) His sister and her boyfriend vouched for his alibi.
(17) It claims to offer 99 Oregon beers on tap and, though I can’t personally vouch for all, the Ancestry Golden was light, the Yachats was smooth, the Block 15 was malty and the Oakshire Overcast Espresso Stout was a creamy, energising shot of success.
(18) It is in the club’s culture.” Jesse Lingard can vouch for that.
(19) I cannot vouch or ‘shill’ enough when it comes to the true freedom of expression Reddit offers.” But there’s a chance that the admin team may, in the words of Strudelle, another SRS moderator, “show some leadership” – especially since Reddit, unlike many hot tech firms, is not fully independent.
(20) And the answer to that lies in the credibility of its apparent author, the ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele , the quality of the sources he has, and the quality of the people who were prepared to vouch for him.