Simply confirming that such information is available would help, even absent detail.

Sure, because any data Jim gave him would simply confirm his own models of how the universe should work.

"We simply confirmed the past decision that was adopted on a government level."

"She simply confirmed what the Soviet government itself had been saying publicly for years."

The measurement simply confirmed what had been true all along.

Usually this would cause someone who had known the deceased to come forward; other times, it simply confirmed that there was no one to care.

So these latest results simply confirm what many of us have known for years.

They simply confirm that this unique melon is and was always itself.

Sometimes they simply confirm the obvious, the story you know is in the air and on everybody's mind.

"But for most of them, they simply confirmed that what they have been doing all along is correct."