corroborate
The tape acted as corroboration of his account.
The prosecution's main challenge is to provide corroboration of Mr Smith's evidence.
Pentagon officials stressed the reports were unconfirmed and they were seeking corroboration.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Proving and disproving
acid test
actions speak louder than wordsidiom
anti-sexist
attest
authenticate
demonstrably
demonstration of something
dispel
disprove
do justice to someone/somethingidiom
non-evidence
probatory
proof positive
provability
provable
verify
vindicate
vindication
vindicative
vindicatory

Examples of corroboration

corroboration
Using only the most rigorous design, on the other hand, ignores the probative importance of replication and corroboration that multiple studies afford.
This overall pattern can be regarded as an exemplary corroboration of veto player theory.
I claim only that agents need not doubt moral claims for which they lack secular corroboration.
Of course, the contrast must not be overdone: corroboration is arguably never definitive, and some problem resolutions can be.
This last difference, however, is very slight and is therefore especially in need of corroboration from other studies.
Theists can wholeheartedly endorse the project of pursuing secular corroboration for their religiously grounded moral claims and just as wholeheartedly reject the doctrine of restraint.
This is also a strong corroboration of the mediocrity principle.
Yet statistical corroboration is also impossible, except in the most general terms, because the numerical weighting of parameters has been left indeterminate.
The other realm deals with the natural-scientific explanation of causal links and processes, for which mechanistic hypotheses and empirical corroboration are appropriate.
Corroboration for this hypothesis comes from an unexpected quarter.
At this point, it is virtually impossible, without corroboration, to determine, in a clinical setting, whether a given uncovered memory is true or false.
Corroboration of this speculation is an interesting topic for future studies.
The error stems in the first place from psychology's emphasis on empirical corroboration to judge the merits of theories.
To this end, he plausibly argues that metaanalysis cannot function as a theory corroboration procedure.
The resulting contributors set is assessed using the corroboration method.
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