validation
noun
the act of confirming something as true or correct: You will be prompted to enter your new password a second time for validation.
validations
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pluralof validation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“You could tell back in March that these companies were going to have incredible back-half earnings. This Salesforce print is probably one of the first validations of that,” Monaghan said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Without experimental validations as yet, we know the community will be skeptical about this very non-mainstream prediction," Ruan said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
People start scratching their heads a bit more thinking: 'Maybe we are being a bit too conservative here, maybe we are doing too many validations, maybe we can shorten the process here and there.'
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
Explaining why he had excluded those details from his report, Kilmer said, "I don't take medical providers' consideration or determination of whether a crime happened or not. Allegations, documentation, validations are not reality."
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2022
Their thinly veiled condescension, their false validations irritated her.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
