corroborative

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I want a corroborative source before I get too worked up about this, though.

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serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"

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adjective

serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for corroborative.

adjective

serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"

Example sentences

I want a corroborative source before I get too worked up about this, though.

It's called the search for "corroborative evidence", where the latter is an oxymoron.

I actually have no idea what "non-corroborative evidence for an idea" means.

"I actually have no idea what "non-corroborative evidence for an idea" means.

Only many corroborative lines of evidence can build a scientific consensus.

The best way is probably corroborative physical evidence similar to dissecting testimony.

"Item, on the 25th, a good purgative and corroborative mixture, composed of fresh cassia with Levantine senna and other ingredients, according to the prescription of Mr. Purgon, to expel Mr. Argan's bile, four francs.

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.."

They're missing some corroborative evidence though: several other countries removed lead in different years, and in almost all of them crime dropped around 20 years later.> in the 1990s, even people who had been exposed to lead as children started committing fewer crimesMaybe people also just commit less crime as they age?