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well-attested

British  

adjective

  1. widely affirmed as correct or true

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Given that several rockets had previously blown up on launch, he needed every bit of his well-attested phlegm before eventually making history a month later.

From The Guardian Dec. 8, 2016

The idea that the artist seeks immortality through his work is a well-attested one, stylishly encapsulated by Jean-Pierre Melville, playing the thinly fictionalized Parvulesco the Writer in Jean-Luc Godard’s A Bout De Souffle.

From Forbes Jul. 11, 2014

Behind the story of “Giselle” lie the still dismaying, well-attested historical accounts of dance mania that caused deaths in the Rhineland in the late medieval and early Renaissance eras.

From New York Times May 29, 2011

He has a well-attested fascination with the gung-ho world of deep-water exploration.

From The Guardian Feb. 3, 2011

Here is a well-attested village community; its members hold by custom and have not changed their condition either for the better or for the worse in point of title.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

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