How to Use authenticate in a Sentence

authenticate

verb
  • The signature has been authenticated.
  • Once open, the page authenticates the same account to be opened on the TV app.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Your phone is used to authenticate your access to that passkey, though.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This is a way of authenticating the cotton, tracing it back to its origins: the farm, the harvest, even the very seed.
    Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Forbes has not been able to authenticate the emails, which were first confirmed by the Daily Beast and later by Rolling Stone.
    Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Luckily for them, the DJ had time to stop in and authenticate the signature.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • The coin or bar would need to be refined and its value would need to be authenticated, meaning gold dust or nuggets could not be used.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023
  • Great seal The seal, which includes a picture of the coat of arms, is used to authenticate certain official acts by the governor.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Vogel thinks her cookbook might be the first inspired and authenticated by a board game.
    Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The headset authenticates the user by looking at their iris.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024
  • At the top end of the market, the power to authenticate a Picasso, a Rothko, a Hepworth, is a lambent, magical thing.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Adler said that in this scenario, the person's iPhone would authenticate the login, presumably by scanning the QR code.
    Max Eddy, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
  • Carlson sent the collection bag to NASA that same year to authenticate its origin.
    NBC News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Of course, the CAI’s system isn’t universal, and it can only be used to authenticate photos that utilize its tools.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The details of the letters were not disclosed, and while F.B.I. agents worked to authenticate them, the new documents do not detail their conclusions.
    Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Three years ago, a hacker claimed to have accessed 73 million AT&T customer records, but only released a small sample of them at the time that were hard to authenticate.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Then the organization made efforts to authenticate the diary, O’Keefe said in the video.
    Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Musk, the richest person in the world, has promised to embrace free speech on the platform, add new features, make Twitter’s algorithm open-source and authenticate all users.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • It’s not just about unlocking your phone, rather having a much faster - and secure - way to authenticate anything with your handset.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
  • But NFTs face criticism for the amount of energy used to authenticate them and their transactions.
    Megan Graham, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2021
  • When signing in with a passkey, the relying party will send a challenge that Dashlane will sign with the private key, sending the response back to authenticate the user.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 2 Mar. 2023
  • This month Gmail has updated requirements for those who send bulk messages – more than 5,000 emails/day – to authenticate their email.
    Gene Marks, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Fans can either use cards or the Amazon One palm scanner to authenticate payments and skip concession lines.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Meanwhile, eBay experts are on hand to authenticate vintage sneakers and run a live auction.
    Briona Butler, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • As a result of his work, Perez claims some of the auction houses have reached out to him not only to authenticate pieces before auction, but also write the essays for certain lots.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Shortly after the fire started, explosions could be heard in footage shared on social media, although Reuters was not able to authenticate the clips.
    Reuters, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The Times has not been able to authenticate messages cited by the woman in the restraining order request or by Bauer’s attorney.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2021
  • The comments, his fist in a week, were heard in an audio recording attributed to the mercenary leader but not authenticated by NBC News.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 July 2023
  • Perhaps unaware of this fact, Intercept reporters sent the document to the NSA, asking them to authenticate it.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 29 July 2021
  • There is nothing to authenticate or confirm: Joe Biden is, and has been, the legitimate winner of the 2020 election, both in Arizona and in America.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2021

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