Probative used in a sentence

Probative in a sentence as an adjective

The new country part, I left England because it was just too cost probative to do a startup there.

You take a person, add some probative questions, see what makes them nervous, and then dig in further on those topics.

Yes, their probative value is limited; I even acknowledged this in the post!

That would probably be more prejudicial than probative, because the photos would be out of context.

My lawyer friend always said 'the probative value must outweigh the prejudicial value' for evidence to be accepted.

Courts consider many kinds of evidence of varying strengths, and the probative value of evidence can be challenged by the opposing side.

Even if one of us is known criminal or terrorist, the fact that conversation took place is merely suspicious rather than probative.

Not to mention the constant threat of malpractice suits, in which violation of the ethical rules are strongly probative of malpractice liability.

A leaked email from the security firm Stratfor hardly a dispositive source, but still probative indicated that a sealed indictment has already been obtained against him.

My "string of criticisms" is actually one probative question: How does transaction volume imply a given value of a unit of currency?Obviously an increase in transaction volume increases the value of currency.

As has been pointed out, the metadata of who you email and phone, while not probative in the same fashion as the contents of calls and emails, are nevertheless a significant source of data, and encryption won't alter that without major changes to the architecture of mail.

This, unlike the above reform, would be a fundamental change in the system, from "monopoly" to a more "unfair competition" grounds, but the fact of the matter is that independent invention is strongly probative of something that probably doesn't deserve patent protection, either for being obvious generally or for being obvious in the context of other advancements in technology.