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How to use the word confirm in a Sentence? Page #19

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We had to confirm that they were hearing what we wanted to say to them.

– Don Hershberger

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9 years ago

The results we got in the issue again confirm the confidence international markets have in Chile's economy, its stability.

– Alberto Arenas

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9 years ago

I am not going to make any announcements, or confirm or deny the reported military action of another country in Iraq. It is up to them (the Iranians) or up to the Iraqis to do that if it did indeed take place.

– John Kerry

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9 years ago

A ship leaves no trace in the sea, but countless in your heart. In German: Ein Schiff hinterlässt keine Spur im Meer, aber unzählige im Herzen. This is how I heard it on a german radio station. Can anyone confirm this and give it a final correction, plus let us know for sure where it´s from in Joseph Conrad´s work? Thomas, from Germany

– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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9 years ago

I can confirm that the Alvarado sisters were found ... We also have the murder weapon and the vehicle in which they were transported to the site where they were buried.

– Leandro Osorio

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9 years ago

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

– Lawrence Durrell

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10 years ago

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

– Thomas Szasz

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10 years ago

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

– Leo Rosten

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10 years ago

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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14 years ago

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

– Gerald R. Ford

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14 years ago

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

– James Lileks

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14 years ago

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