corroboration

corroborate | American Dictionary

corroborate
verb[ T ]
us/kəˈrɑb·əˌreɪt/
to add information in support of an idea, opinion, or statement:
Recent research seems to corroborate the theory.

corroboration

noun[ U ]us/kəˌrɑb·əˈreɪ·ʃən/
She accused him without corroboration of any kind.

Examples of corroborate

corroborate
These findings were corroborated by a number of laboratory-based measures of grammatical competence including estimated mean length of utterances, verbal comprehension, and repetition of sentences.
The findings of the study largely corroborated the predictions and confirmed the importance of phonological mediation in the initial stages of reading acquisition.
The fact that it was in force in 1991 was corroborated by several interview statements in the focus group discussions.
Types of statements made in public health and the empirical evidence to corroborate them.
This is corroborated by the region's economic development and relative stability in recent years.
The present study corroborates the findings of many earlier studies of risk factors for sporadic campylobacter infections in other countries.
Since making these observations, one research group has recently corroborated the finding that bilingual children may not be delayed in their achievement of linguistic milestones.
This implies that concerted evolution is not acting, which is corroborated by the scarcity of signatures of gene conversion and recombination.
An old but controversial thesis in linguistic theory is ultimately corroborated : that semantic and contextual information need to be rigorously integrated into the grammar.
The responses of other interviewees corroborated the claim that judges tend to follow the therapeutic recommendations.
The last section shows how the empirical results corroborate the expectations.
To some extent the evidence appears to corroborate his claims.
This violence difference was corroborated by all three data sources (self-reports, informant reports, official records) with large effect sizes.
The first response to discrepancies between theory and evidence would be to perform further experiments, to corroborate or reevaluate the earlier evidence.
Such cases reflect the situation when top-down information has already fully activated the semantic and phonological codes given reasonable corroborating input from orthography.
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