How to Use corroborate in a Sentence

corroborate

verb
  • Other alleged perpetrators were not named because the firm was not able to corroborate allegations.
    Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2021
  • NBC News was unable to independently corroborate the woman's claims, texts, and video from the evening.
    NBC News, 23 Mar. 2021
  • This statement has yet to be independently corroborated, but the idea of eliminating capital gains tax on bitcoin is not new.
    Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Our research findings corroborate the thesis that animal and plant species spread out primarily via bridges of vegetation.
    Quartz Africa, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Longer video footage sent by the law firm and obtained by The Post corroborates the order of events.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • They are seen as a way to corroborate Comey's account in Mueller's probe.
    Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 17 Mar. 2018
  • At first glance, this video seems to corroborate the claim.
    Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • What the video shows Aden insisted that deputies did not go to the wrong apartment, and that the video would corroborate that.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • And Netflix and phone records seemed to help corroborate his story … at least for a while.
    Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Tire markings on the road seemed to corroborate that account, the complaint said.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The video corroborates reports this groin injury is not nearly as bad as the one last year.
    Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • That probably should be done in writing to that the non-lawyer can corroborate that this was done.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The new videos appear to corroborate what was described in the Guardian report.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • The tools used on the carcass seem to corroborate this theory.
    John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2018
  • Witnesses and videos corroborate that the teenage girl stayed still while her mom screamed.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Put in pairs to corroborate each other’s results, the dogs got close-to-perfect scores.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020
  • On Tuesday night, the Free Press could not corroborate with police that a report was made a year ago.
    Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Reporters from the Times have not been able to corroborate the existence of such an order.
    Peter Baker and Charlie Savage, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • On top of that, the other two pilots who were flying with Cassie at the time don’t corroborate her story.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Based on the prediction, the fiery streaks in the sky over Montana appear to corroborate that timing.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 July 2022
  • The Journal couldn’t corroborate the amount of the ransom payment.
    Robert McMillan, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • That’s corroborated by my mother, who didn’t know what to do with that.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • And yet, after over nine hours, the story has still not been corroborated and the divide over who is telling the truth remains.
    Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The woman’s friend corroborated that phone call to NBC News.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The reporting corroborates what people have told us off the record.
    Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 18 May 2018
  • Again, the video from the daycare appears to corroborate that part of Fravel's story.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Humphrey had not been in contact for years with most of the women who corroborated her account.
    Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The documents, released by the city late last week, corroborate this sequence of events.
    Liz Navratil, Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • An eyewitness on the scene was able to corroborate the victim's account of the attack.
    Dana Guthrie, Houston Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2017
  • They’ve been seen by eyewitnesses, and it's been corroborated by and recorded by gun camera footage.
    Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024

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