The phrase "affirms something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when stating that someone or something confirms or supports a particular idea, belief, or statement.
Example: "The research findings affirm something that many experts have long believed: that regular exercise significantly improves mental health."
Alternatives: "confirms something" or "supports something".
But it also affirms something I've believed for a long time: that all ballot papers for political office should include a "None of the above" option, and that in an age such as ours, as many abstainers as possible should use social media and the web to explain why they haven't cast a vote.
We hear the name as a unit, just as we hear ice cream as "icecream," not as cream that is iced, or Affirmative Action as "Affirmativackshun," rather than parsing out that it is about some kind of action that affirms something.
By rendering his characters equally self-aware and damaged, he affirms something about them while also making us complicit in their acts.
Zinni's idea mostly affirms something the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wauthorton Post author Dana Priest wrote in her important book, The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military.
Even letting them stand untouched is a way of affirming something in the present.
One is continually trying to affirm something with the man in the next seat".
This article has affirmed something I have known for a long time, from working in certain communities.
In the process, Obama has affirmed something important: that anti-supernaturalism is not a litmus test at the highest levels of science.
And thus the newspaper story, an extremely style-coded genre, demands the presence of one- and two-sentence statements by experts who affirm something that supports, but interestingly does not coincide with, the main thesis of the story.
Friends of multilocation typically want to affirm something stronger than the negation of Functionality+.
I find that it is so often the perfect response to affirm something someone else said without needing a long response.
