Confirm
Confirm verb - To give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of.
Witness to and confirm are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Witness to" instead a verb "Confirm".
Witness to
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The truth isn't revealed until Sam calls the mother as a witness to the stand, though it's just as much of a shock to him as it is to the rest of the courtroom (he only called her to the stand thinking she could confirm that the shooting was an accident or self-defense).
Source: Offing the Offspring - Unfortunately, for the Daltons, Uncle Henry also demanded that the Daltons brought Lucky Luke as a witness to confirm the fulfillment of the condition.
Source: On One Condition -
And without a witness to confirm they were ambushed, he assumes the knight broke the code and tried to run away, something knights never do in Theodore's mind.
Source: Video Game / Romancing SaGa
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