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corroboration

/kuh-rob-uh-rey-shuhn/US // kəˌrɒb əˈreɪ ʃən //

证实,佐证,确证,证实性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of corroborating.
    • : a corroboratory fact, statement, etc.

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Examples

  • It can spread, but people are going to perceive it as a rumor because there’s no source, there’s no further corroboration.

  • For the attorneys, that provided an important piece of corroboration, although they wrote that no other witnesses they interviewed recalled hearing any remarks of that nature by Priefer.

  • Ruth, in his defense, said that he had been having dinner with friends at the time, and produced two witnesses in corroboration.

  • I dialed two other authorities, trusted sources in both Mexico and the United States, trying to find corroboration.

  • The corroboration that apparently led him to put faith in Ben-Menashe's testimony was retroactive.

  • Corroboration is not needed in a speech intended narrowly for the pre-convinced.

  • It is in fact this process of corroboration that has furnished all ranks of swearers with their necessary side-arms and equipment.

  • Mrs. Simpson glanced at it as if it offered a kind of corroboration of the necessity of their being nice.

  • "That's very true," said Mrs. Gladwish, with an air of responsible corroboration.

  • As I said before, it may seem to lack essential corroboration.

  • Only the following passage will be referred to here in corroboration of this.