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as in chronic
being such by habit and not likely to change
a confirmed grouch who never seems to smile
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as in deep
firmly established over time
a confirmed tendency to exaggerate about everything
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as in verified
to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of
several eyewitnesses who can confirm the defendant's account of what happened
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as in approved
to give official acceptance of as satisfactory
the senate must confirm an appointment to an ambassadorship
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Recent Examples of confirmed
Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2025
Because confirmed planets are regularly added to the count, no single planet is considered the milestone 6,000th entry, NASA said in a press release in September announcing the achievement.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
Rourke’s manager of nine years, Kimberly Hines, later confirmed to multiple outlets that her team was behind the GoFundMe.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
However, the Alabama 9-1-1 Board said there were no confirmed or reported 911 outages in that state.
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Joe Calvello, another alum of Sanders’ 2020 presidential run, is also coming on board at City Hall as Mamdani’s press secretary, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed.
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Influenza can cause serious illness and complications, especially for people 65 years and older, people with certain chronic medical conditions and children under the age of 5, health officials said.—
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Simple daily steps now can help lower the risk of chronic illness later in life.—
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This design helps the sensor capture bright highlights and deep shadows in the same frame.—
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This could be easily written off as the financial mismanagement of youth, but taken as a whole, Gen Z’s outlook on the economy is at once a rejection of conventional wisdom and a deep, almost subconscious absorption of the commodification of everything.—
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Videos circulating on social media and verified by The New York Times show the shooting of a woman by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, as well as the moments immediately before and after.—
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Though their observation has yet to be verified by wildlife biologists, Kogo and Tapanes are working with Burmese pythons specialists at the University of Florida to confirm the species.—
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If approved, new local sales taxes in Olathe would pay back the stadium bonds instead of going toward other local government functions.—
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The county has approved the extra occupancy at Harvest Farm through March of this year.—
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But the discharges also can overwhelm the delicate estuaries east and west of the state’s largest lake and, during the warm summer months, spread blooms of toxic algae, an issue that has become more persistent in recent years.—
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In Bug, Carrie Coon's Agnes White — an Oklahoma waitress too exhausted to outrun her past — faces a more persistent threat.—
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Of course the categories may overlap, but many of the young people in Astoria or Ridgewood-Bushwick have grown up in their parents’ homes in more settled parts of the city.—
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Erin Simkin—Netflix Advertisement Under Konner and Kaplan, Nobody Wants This has grown into a more settled and expansive show.—
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But the department has argued the sheer volume of documents that need to be found, uploaded, reviewed, redacted and published has forced it to instead release the files online on a rolling basis, with a series of enormous document dumps over the course of several days in mid-December.—
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Skelton argued that the city’s code lays out a specific process for declaring an animal as dangerous, which often entails a day in municipal court.—
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The United States has not ratified the convention but generally treats its provisions as customary law.—
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The win came after the 30-team ECHL and its players’ union ratified a new five-year collective-bargaining agreement.—
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“Confirmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confirmed. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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