The phrase "found confirmation for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are looking for proof or verification of something. For example: "After researching online, I finally found confirmation for my suspicions about the history of the city."
Dr. Toussaint and his colleagues also found confirmation for previous studies, which have indicated that the ability to forgive -- perhaps because it reduces the stress induced by holding grudges -- may be associated with health benefits.
Elinor, who will eventually quit the Slade to become a decorator of teapots at Roger Fry's Omega Workshops, drifts into the pacifist Bloomsbury circle — "I've been to tea with Lady Ottoline Morrell!" — where Sassoon, in Barker's "Regeneration," found confirmation for his own disgust with the war.
On the other hand, in 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we found confirmation for the high abundance of Cyanobacteria.
We found confirmation for the expectation that in situations of between-group competition, people spend more resources on the punishment of defecting group members.
In the internet universe one can find confirmation for virtually any opinion or belief, no matter how outlandish.
When I went online to find confirmation for the story, I found one source that referred to it as a "healing story".
We find confirmation for these hypotheses.
We tested each of these candidates by qRT-PCR, but found confirmation only for IRS2-NUFIP1 e1-e8 in T2.
We have found confirmation papers on the Web for the first new interaction of five 2-dimensional subnetworks (Table 7).
Our results find confirmation in previous frameworks that represent phases of cognitive readiness for behavioural change.
For a significant fraction of the extended 3'UTR probe sets, we could find confirmation by gene prediction methods.
