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corroborative

adjective as in confirmatory

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No arrest record, no statements from the police corroborating the story.

Meanwhile, your inner ear—the organ in charge of your balance and sense of motion—corroborates this information by telling your brain that yes, you’re moving.

A person familiar with the matter corroborated this claim to TechCrunch.

Scientists are also under strict orders not to report anything that may corroborate the belief that the virus originated inside China.

From Time

One witness, former Deputy Secretary Jim Byrne, said Wilkie told him about it, but Wilkie denied it and Byrne didn’t have corroborating documentation.

But I reckon we'll have to take these two carcasses along as a sort of corroborative evidence.

Day by day as scientific investigation proceeds we hear of additional corroborative evidence.

The beneficial practical consequences of them, in many cases, gave corroborative evidence that they were warranted.

A chain of the former kind was termed by Bentham a self-corroborative chain of evidence; the second, a self-infirmative chain.

This is most complimentary to the virtue of Prince Bladud's tears, and strongly corroborative of the veracity of this legend.'

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to corroborative, such as: collateral, and supporting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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