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confirm

/kənˈfɝm/ adverb C2
  1. For sure, definitely. · This is confirm not my handwriting.
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I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has occurred since then has served to confirm my original supposition, and, indeed, was the logical sequence of it.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 74 · B2
Will confirm by advertisement.—Pierrot.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 33 · B2
And Dantès, happy to escape the history and explanation which would be sure to confirm his belief in his friend’s mental instability, glided like a snake along the narrow passage; while Faria, restored by his alarm to a certain amount of activity, pushed the stone into place with his foot, and covered it with a mat in order the more effectually to avoid discovery.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 185 · C1
“Well, that tends to confirm my own ideas,” said Franz, “that the countess’s suspicions were destitute alike of sense and reason.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 379 · C1

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