Meaning & use
corroborate
To confirm or give support to a statement, theory, or finding with additional evidence.
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Two independent witnesses corroborated the driver's account of the accident.
New fossil evidence corroborates the scientists' earlier theory about the species.
A note on using this word
Corroborate is common in legal and scientific writing, where independent evidence must support a claim already made.
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