Definition of "authenticating" []

• Present participle of authenticate. (verb)

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• "It would be their responsibility to do a good job in authenticating it and explaining it."
• "Finally we had a good conversation about the role of peer review and the responsibility of the reader in authenticating scholarship (in both science and humanities)."
• "Decades from now, all those fading thumbprints alongside "Flowers, Gennifer" and "Lewinsky, Monica" will be of use in authenticating first editions, and only true sentimentalists will leave a similar smudge next to "Dole, Bob, 1996 election and.""