Her parents' attitude only 'confirmed' [='strengthened, reinforced'] her resolve to get her own apartment.
The award 'confirmed' her status as one of the great movie actresses.
She was 'confirmed in' her determination to get a higher-paying job.
(..) It's uh... uh... it's a paradox. Paradoxes are part of nature. Think about light. If you look at huygens, light is a wave, as confirmed by the double - slit experiments, but then along comes albert einstein and discovers that light behaves like particles,too. Well,I didn't make it worse. (..)2007 TvShow: The Big Bang Theory Title: Pilot Season: 1 Episode 1