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 > [!NOTE]  
 > There are some differences in the public API between `zon` and `zod`. Those mostly stem from the fact that Python does not have type inference like Typescript has. There are other slight deviations between `zon` and `zod`. 
 
+### General
+
+#### Validate
+
+To validate against a schema, use `validator.validate()`
+
+```python
+validator = zon.string()
+message = validator.validate("Hello World!") # returns 'Hello World!'
+```
+
+Alternatively, you may use `validator.safe_validate()`.
+`save_validate` will tell you whether the validation was successful, without throwing an error. Depending on the needs of your project, you can do this to handle exceptions more elegantly.
+
+```python
+validator = zon.string()
+success, message = validator.safe_validate("Hello World!") # returns (True, 'Hello World!')
+```
+
+
 ### Basic types
 
 `zon` features most of `zod`'s basic types: