How to Use validate in a Sentence

validate

verb
  • A judge still needs to validate the election.
  • The court validated the contract.
  • The decline in sales only validated our concerns.
  • Customs officers validated our passports.
  • All that will validate why the Suns didn’t give him the five-year max.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Scan your ticket to validate at the kiosk on the first floor near the book checkout counter.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But please, please, from the bottom of my heart — do not validate Ryan Reynolds in this way.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
  • What else validates the price of gold and the original CPI method?
    — Bob Haber, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • And don't wait for nobody idea in the public to validate that, bruh.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2021
  • But the tennis world did nothing but pat her on the back and validate her stance.
    — Dave Seminara, National Review, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The task is not to beat back the anxious feelings but to feel and validate them and then work them into the world.
    — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 18 June 2022
  • But some states go a step further and use their own labs to validate the results.
    — Ryan Randazzo, AZCentral.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Still, Miller doesn’t need the season-ending award to validate his first year as a pro.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2024
  • That’s probably been one of the most validating parts of it for me.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The initial findings seemed to validate the skin-in-the-game theory.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • About 3,500 were used as lab workers tried to validate them.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Sowers, 25, the lacrosse star, seemed to validate this concern.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Once on board, inspectors validate the pass by scanning the barcode in the app.
    — Blane Bachelor, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The results from the opener only validate them in their minds.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Nikki’s kind of a terror and wants to be a rock star so bad to validate him as a human being, right?
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 13 July 2022
  • The chaos that followed at the Kabul airport seemed to validate the concerns of Biden’s critics.
    — Edward Segal, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • So what’s been validating to me is to see the work come together over that number of years.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
  • If the John Hancock still doesn’t pass muster, an attempt is made to contact the voter to validate the ballot.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • It’s not my job to validate how people feel about their bodies.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021
  • However, Bronny impressed enough in his pre-draft workouts to validate his place in the league in the eyes of some scouts.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
  • One of the threads for me for all those years of listening was that all humans are looking to be validated.
    — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • There were so many moments that were really validating in terms of how much the cast loved it.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The 388 names were compiled by the FBI and deemed validated with first and last names, county officials said.
    — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Republicans can point to this to validate their claims that the Democratic Party cannot be trusted not to lurch too far to the left.
    — Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • Our earliest conversations were casual in tone, validating, and a huge relief.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025

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