validation
Americannoun
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the act of confirming something as true or correct: You will be prompted to enter your new password a second time for validation.
The new method is very promising but requires validation through further testing.
You will be prompted to enter your new password a second time for validation.
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the act of officially or legally certifying or approving something.
The proposal will be prioritized and put into action after it undergoes validation by the government.
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the act of affirming a person, or their ideas, feelings, actions, etc., as acceptable and worthy.
Recognition and validation of minority cultures by classroom teachers is crucial to student wellbeing and success.
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Explanation
Validation is making sure that something is true. Even if you know you're a great poet, you may still long for the validation of being awarded a literary prize or having a volume of your poems published by a respected press. Your winning lottery ticket may require validation — lottery officials have to check it to make sure it's not counterfeit and that you really do have the winning numbers. The word validation is formed from the Latin word for "strong," validus, and validation makes something strong. You may claim that you've danced more tango turns than anyone else in the history of the world, but you'll have to wait for someone from Guinness World Records to give your claim validation.
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Buying a fund after it goes up is the natural thing to do; it feels good, because the rising price feels like validation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“The limiting factor for expansion is really rigorous validation, making sure things are completely safe,” Musk said on a call with investors in April.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
It’s no wonder that theater etiquette has declined when so many people are turning to their obsequious chatbots for validation of their worst impulses.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Reid sees Lestat as someone searching for validation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
My parents, Garrett, and I gravitate outside as well, all of us standing, strangely, looking to one another for some kind of guidance, or at least validation that this is actually happening.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
"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
Once these validations were complete, Mendel applied the pollen from a plant with violet flowers to the stigma of a plant with white flowers.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Is he a new kind of Dear Abby, doling out advice, small insights, validations?
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2021
Their thinly veiled condescension, their false validations irritated her.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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