Word Finder - evidence

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Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

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There is no evidence that anyone was here earlier.

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Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.

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One who bears witness.

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A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.

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To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

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She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.

He was trying to find incriminating evidence on Yancey.

Rules of evidence are widely known and honored.

I need concrete evidence before I'm a believer and I don't see that on the horizon.

Once again there was no evidence to make Jeffrey Byrne's death anything but an accidental drowning.

There wasn't any evidence to suggest other than an unfortunate accident.

He was in the area and the police took a good look at him from the information I have but there wasn't enough evidence to charge him.

The evidence Lilith wasn.t meant for him was clear.

They both agreed it was further evidence that he was involved in the death of Billy Langstrom, but they remained uncertain about his involvement with Martha's bones.

His lip had started to heal, but there was still evidence of a burn.

You said so yourself—you've got no real evidence a crime was even committed—you lost the body!

She sat to pull on shoes and saw the scars around her wrists, evidence of her fight against the bindings Jilian used to strap her onto the table.

Obtaining hard and fast evidence was their not-always simple chore.

What evidence did they have to the contrary?

But there was satisfaction in seeing from day to day the evidence of growing mastery and the possibility of final success.

Either they didn't want to spook him or they don't have any concrete evidence of specific crimes.

There isn't a lick of evidence to put Byrne anywhere near that dough.

They claim there's not enough evidence it's him.

The only decision he'd made was to do nothing until there was clear evidence tying Byrne to the money.

As soon as Dean mentioned the luggage and briefcase locked in the trunk of the car, Fred insisted on protecting this valuable evidence by bringing them in—just for safekeeping.

Dean didn't bother to mention certain rules of evidence that looked askance at pilfered items.

The boys wore long hair and striped sweaters and yelled their college yell every other step they took, to the great satisfaction of the populace, which was glad to have this evidence that their lungs were in good condition.

Thus it is that Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in the tree-top's joyance, and conceive Of sunshine and wide air and winged things, By sympathy of nature, so do I gave evidence of things unseen.

Dean promised himself to keep driving past the building if the deputy Larkin's car was in evidence, but only the sheriff's vehicle was present.

If it is said that he expected to end the campaign by occupying Moscow as he had ended a previous campaign by occupying Vienna, there is much evidence to the contrary.

Rubbing his eyes, he peered at the blurred figures of his clock, (more evidence of the necessity for his glasses).

Neither gnarled fingers nor old scars nor old doubts and sorrows were any of them in evidence now.

Baby Claire was often in evidence in our work place, sleeping on mother's arm or in her file cabinet remodeled crib, or supping on Martha's breast.

This was more evidence of Howie's ineptness at the everyday chores the rest of us took for granted.

While I had no direct evidence the attendees were all registered sex offenders, the way they nodded and agreed at the mention of deviant sexual behavior made me feel I might be unique among like penitents.

When he replayed his dictated first draft, the report seemed dry but the evidence produced an overwhelming endorsement that there was no logical reason why Jeffrey Byrne might skip.

In fact, so far as the direct evidence of our senses tells us, matter appears to be indefinitely divisible.

Bird Song was as quiet as an empty church with none of the remaining guests in evidence, nor was there any sign the police had returned.

In spite of all the evidence, Yancey still came out as a responsible adult.

Dean was hoping to find it or at least telltale signs that a body had decomposed on this spot, but no such evidence was apparent.

Wasn't that bottle evidence?

I don't even like to say it because I don't have an ounce of evidence, but at the debate Fitzgerald said liquor had been found in Billy's vehicle.

He added, It conveniently covers up any footprints or evidence up here too.

I still think this stuff is important evidence.

I don't know what Arthur Atherton is up to but he has no more evidence your husband is alive than the man in the moon.

In this connexion it is of interest to note that, both in the Mediterranean islands and in West Africa, dwarf elephants of the African type are accompanied by pigmy species of hippopotamus, although we have not yet evidence to show that in Africa the two animals occupy actually the same area.

One has hitherto supposed that he was related to the Mediterraneans, the race to which the Bronze Age Greeks and Italians belonged; but this supposed connexion may well break down in the matter of skull form, as the Hittite skull, like that of the modern Anatolian, probably inclined to be brachycephalic. whereas that of the Mediterranean inclined in the other direction, And now the Bohemian Assyriologist Prof. Hrozny has brought forward evidence s that the cuneiform script adopted by the Hittites from the Mesopotamians expressed an Indo-European tongue, nearly akin to Latin!

She seemed nervous and her open smile was less in evidence, unless speaking of her daughter.

More importantly, Dean now realized that the only real evidence that the remains from the mine were human had disappeared.

Internal evidence is strongly in favour of its having been a joint work, in which more than one of the men of letters who composed Marguerite's household took part.

Southern customers objected to its blue color, which is the evidence of its purity, as if it were muddy, and preferred the Cambridge ice, which is white, but tastes of weeds.

I can't see where there's near enough evidence to nail Fitzgerald over Billy's death, or that there ever will be.

For the purposes of scientific topography observation of the natural features and outlines is followed by exact investigation of the architectural structures or remnants, a process demanding high technical competence, acute judgment and practical experience, as well as wide and accurate scholarship. The building material and the manner of its employment furnish evidence no less important than the character of the masonry, the design and the modes of ornamentation.

We have no direct evidence as to the institutions of the Seleucid court in the 3rd century.

Murder seems a real stretch, given lack of motive—nothing missing, no evidence or anything else usual to a homicide.

Though the weight of sadness from the past few days was still in evidence, she was obviously brightened by Fred O'Connor, the per­fect host.