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Discover LudwigThe phrase "be validation" is not a grammatically correct construction in written English.
It is likely missing a key component, such as an article or auxiliary verb. It is also not a commonly used phrase in English. Instead, you could say "to be a validation", "to validate", or "to be validated". For example: "His success in the competition will be a validation of all his hard work." "You need to validate your parking ticket before leaving the garage." "The new system has yet to be validated by our team of experts."
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be validation
noun
The act of validating something.
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Still, an All-Star berth would be validation of his tricky transition.
"But his great track record over the years should be validation enough".
"[To win] would be validation of the programme, and all the individual people who made this a success".
Just as the prospect of a President George W. Bush naming Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice to his cabinet would be validation for African-Americans (and legitimate, compared to that show in Philadelphia).
O'Reilly's greatest crisis, Kitman reports, came during the 1982 Falkland Islands War: he was supposed to appear on the CBS Evening News, which would be "validation for his father that he was a network foreign correspondent, that a major corporation was wise enough to have faith in him".
I wouldn't say the Green Park stranger was a catalyst – aside from being extremely startling and a nuisance, he seemed to be validation of that impulse to try to find a place that suits me (or a place I could become suited to).
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It is validation.
The championship is validation".
"More than vindication, it's validation.
Again – all Brent wants is validation.
For Dr. Benson, it was validation: "It was like karma.
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