well-attested
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
In no well-attested case has a dog shown any sense as to the nature of any mechanical contrivance.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
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