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/kəɹˈɒbɹətˌɪv/
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[ US /kɝˈɑbɝəˌtɪv, kɝˈɑbɹəˌtɪv/ ]
[ US /kɝˈɑbɝəˌtɪv, kɝˈɑbɹəˌtɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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serving to support or corroborate
collateral evidence
How To Use corroborative In A Sentence
- No matter how the case ends, the court's decision to accept the recorded testimony from the two children as corroborative evidence is epochal.
- I feel there is a need for corroborative evidence in these cases and a by-law like this could leave a Judge open to making bad orders.
- Is there any corroborative evidence for this theory?
- Not only did the majority of the media overlook this flurry of questionable and occasionally illegal activity on the part of the prosecution, it also seemed perfectly content to perpetuate damning propaganda on the prosecution's behalf, despite a complete lack of corroborative evidence. Charles Thomson: One of the Most Shameful Episodes In Journalistic History
- In the total disregard of these basic rights as citizens, one is forced to take sides on the basis of informed speculation only rather than corroborative documents and evidentiary material.
- `It's a corroborative detail, but it's a long way from being proof. STAGE FRIGHT
- The adjective, of course, is adminicular 'auxiliary, corroborative', which I intend to use whenever maximum obfuscation is a desideratum. Languagehat.com: ADMINICLE.
- They will not prosecute on the word of one witness without some kind of corroborative evidence (fair enough, one might say, but what if YOU were the witness, whose word counts for no more that the scumbag who robbed you?) “Pin your ears back you lot; the Gene Genie speaks” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- But what we are doing now is basically tracking whether there is a corroborative and corresponding response from southern-aligned forces, he says. Satellite Images Show Build-up of Northern Forces in Sudan’s Abyei Region
- They convicted the wrong man on the basis of a signed confession with no corroborative evidence.