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Collaborate vs. Corroborate

Collaborate

/kəˈlæbəreɪt/
To work together with others to achieve a common goal

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/
To confirm or give support to a statement, theory, or finding

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:

etymology
  • 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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