testify

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To provide eye-witness accounts or other forms of evidence to a court of law while under oath.

When one testifies, the evidence he or she provides is called a testimony.

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"Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Taylor testifying before the House Budget Committee on HIV/AIDS funding, March 6, 1990" by is licensed under CC BY.

Published Works: 
The Ghostway (1984)
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Cultural Reference