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Collaborate vs. Corroborate
Collaborate
/kəˈlæbəreɪt/Examples:
The mathematicians Richard Courant, Herman Weyl and John von Neumann collaborated.Our team will collaborate with the design department on this project.Authors from different countries collaborate on this anthology.
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Corroborate
/kəˈrɒbəreɪt/Examples:
The witness corroborated the suspect's whereabouts at the time.Further research is needed to corroborate these initial findings.Multiple sources were able to corroborate the journalist's report.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Collaborate is all about working together like a team.
- Corroborate is about providing proof or evidence.
- Remember that collaborate has labor in it, and you labor together.
- Corroborate has double the rs, think of it as double the recommendations or proof.
- Visualize collaborating on a project, but corroborating a theory.
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