as in supportive
serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something
the results of the DNA fingerprinting was all the corroborative evidence the jury needed to convict
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Adjective
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Perhaps there is no more probative example of this when the current president would not rule out using American military force to take Greenland and/or the Panama Canal.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
29 Jan. 2025 -
Fulbright shepherded the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through the Senate in 1964, but two years later, his probative hearings helped shift public opinion against the war.—
James Goldgeier,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Aug. 2018
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While patients may still need confirmatory testing through brain imaging or spinal fluid analysis, this blood test enables the medical community to adopt a more proactive, precise, and personalized strategy for diagnosing and treating patients with dementia.—
Mill Etienne,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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The company offers confirmatory testing, but in most cases, California Correctional Health Care Services does not request it, according to Quest Diagnostics.—
Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Corroborative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corroborative. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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