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corroborative

/verb kuh-rob-uh-reyt; adjective kuh-rob-er-it/US // verb kəˈrɒb əˌreɪt; adjective kəˈrɒb ər ɪt //

证实性的,证实性,确凿的,确证性的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cor·rob·o·rat·ed, cor·rob·o·rat·ing.

    • : to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. confirmed.

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Examples

  • No arrest record, no statements from the police corroborating the story.

  • Meanwhile, your inner ear—the organ in charge of your balance and sense of motion—corroborates this information by telling your brain that yes, you’re moving.

  • A person familiar with the matter corroborated this claim to TechCrunch.

  • Scientists are also under strict orders not to report anything that may corroborate the belief that the virus originated inside China.

  • One witness, former Deputy Secretary Jim Byrne, said Wilkie told him about it, but Wilkie denied it and Byrne didn’t have corroborating documentation.

  • But I reckon we'll have to take these two carcasses along as a sort of corroborative evidence.

  • Day by day as scientific investigation proceeds we hear of additional corroborative evidence.

  • The beneficial practical consequences of them, in many cases, gave corroborative evidence that they were warranted.

  • A chain of the former kind was termed by Bentham a self-corroborative chain of evidence; the second, a self-infirmative chain.

  • This is most complimentary to the virtue of Prince Bladud's tears, and strongly corroborative of the veracity of this legend.'