"gain validation" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to express an idea of becoming validated or gaining recognition. For example, "The team worked hard to gain validation from their peers."
People enjoy and gain validation from seeing their experiences and lived realities reflected back in art.
A related tendency is to ask for advice when one's real goal is to gain validation or praise.
Stevens and the Bulldogs may not be part of this year's field, but they helped teams from smaller leagues gain validation.
"AOL's blocking our interoperability is for our young company and committed employees an unfortunate manner in which to gain validation for our product," he says.
But if achievement is how we try to gain validation from the world and what we have to achieve to be good enough is a moving target we will never get there.
Cinema, back then, was essentially theatre – to gain validation from audiences and the market, it copied its closest and most successful cultural cousin.
I truly believe this, but also believe that it's important to get this onto the radar of IES and NSF so that the field gains validation from research.
While Dunga, Brazil's coach, faces caustic second-guessing for a style that favored muscle over beauty, Bert van Marwijk of the Netherlands gained validation for his assertion that the Dutch could win the World Cup for the first time.
Two moments stand out: opening our first partnership between our university in northern France and an English-speaking campus – the University of the West of Scotland; and gaining validation for our general and business English courses for students from undergraduate to master's level.
Several participants identified that they gained validation in their role as a healthcare professional from problem-solving on behalf of patients, which conflicted with the theory of enhancing patients' self-efficacy.
However, this classifier will only gain validity after independent CGH profiles (a validation set) can verify it.
