as in confirming
serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something
a confirmatory test for pregnancy
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Recent Examples of confirmatory
That estimate is based on symptoms alone, without confirmatory testing.
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Erika Edwards, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2025
At the time of report, it was noted about a third of drugs approved through the accelerated approval process had incomplete confirmatory trials.
—Joseph Choi, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will perform confirmatory tests.
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2025
Initial tests suggested the child might have the bird flu, but confirmatory tests by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could not identify the virus.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
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Erika Edwards, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2025
At the time of report, it was noted about a third of drugs approved through the accelerated approval process had incomplete confirmatory trials.
—Joseph Choi, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will perform confirmatory tests.
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2025
Initial tests suggested the child might have the bird flu, but confirmatory tests by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could not identify the virus.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for confirmatory
supplementary
Adjective
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And this past week, The Financial Times reported that regulators were preparing to announce within months a reduction in the supplementary leverage ratio, a backstop safety measure adopted in 2014.—
Peter Coy,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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But in an fMRI machine, her brain looked surprisingly active: When she was asked to imagine playing tennis, blood flowed to her brain’s supplementary motor area, a region that helps coordinate movement.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2025
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“Confirmatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confirmatory. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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