Confirm
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In No Country for Old Men, Anton Chigurh is a strange subversion, as he kills people based on the toss of a coin just to confirm his own bizarre set of morals that make sense only to him.
- Dio decides to confirm that he is truly dead by decapitating him, although this is a trap set up by Jotaro to land a hit on him.
Source: Reality Ensues / Anime and Manga -
Basically, it amounts to knowing exactly how many tiles in a set have mines but not being able to confirm (with perfect accuracy) which ones in that set have mines, despite having cleared out the rest of the board.
Source: Video Game / Minesweeper
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Set and Confirm. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/confirm/set
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Set or Confirm. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/confirm/set.
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