Authenticate
Authenticate verb - To declare (something) to be true or genuine.
Find and authenticate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Find" instead a verb "Authenticate".
Find
Find verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.
Authenticate and find are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Authenticate" instead a verb "Find".
Common collocations
| item | authenticate item | find item |
| information | authenticate information | find information |
Both words in one sentence
- In an episode of Law And Order: Criminal Intent, Stephen Colbert plays a graphologist hired to authenticate some documents, only to find out that he forged them, and committed the original murder.
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He's the guy most museums will call on to authenticate a new find, and he's the guy they're afraid to call on, since he'll spot a fake easily.
Source: Southern-Fried Genius - The protagonist (a journalist) of The Lost World is essentially on the trip to authenticate everything they find (since the professor has been ridiculed for years for his theories).
Source: The Team Benefactor
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