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//a confirmed grouch who never seems to smile2 firmly established over time //a confirmed tendency to exaggerate about everything brief, ephemeral, fleeting, impermanent, interim, momentary, provisional, short-lived, short-term, temporary, transient 1 to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of //several eyewitnesses who can confirm the defendant's account of what happened argued, attested, authenticated, bore out, certified, corroborated, substantiated, supported, validated, verified, vindicated