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  • verb Present participle of corroborate.
  • adjective supporting

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Examples

  • Then Fitzgerald could still justify pursuing the less important witnesses to obtain corroborating evidence.

    A Plame Too Far | PopPolitics.com 2005

  • Then Fitzgerald could still justify pursuing the less important witnesses to obtain corroborating evidence.

    A Plame Too Far | PopPolitics.com 2005

  • Unfortunately there is evidence that makes it look as if he might have done it -- what they call corroborating testimony. "

    Crooked Trails and Straight William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • If anyone who reads this email feels the need to obtain corroborating confirmation of Mr. STRINE’s total lack of SEAL credentials, they may contact the Public

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • If anyone who reads this email feels the need to obtain corroborating confirmation of Mr. STRINE’s total lack of SEAL credentials, they may contact the Public

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Repudiated in Mark, fraught with theological implications, and very light on what I'd call a corroborating detail.

    Not All Atheists Are Mythicists James F. McGrath 2010

  • King hypnosis if King goes back and gives the agents "corroborating" evidence.

    The American Psychological Association and the Missing Ethics Investigation 2009

  • The spectacular failure of Frank Churchill's final letter to explain his actions strikes me as a kind of corroborating testimony for the novel's unwillingness to bring its multiple strains together.

    Unanswerable Gallantry and Thick-Headed Nonsense: Rereading Box Hill 2000

  • After tossing him a few softballs about the sex tape - and in the process proving that the former senatorial aide is unclear on the difference between "corroborating" and "collaborating" evidence - she went for the gold.

    Salon 2010

  • In Ireland she receives 'corroborating' evidence of a child psychologists report that states the child has been sexually abused and is showing signs of distress and trauma, the Family Court will not accept the report into evidence because the mother obtained it and this apparently, in the Family Court's view is a 'biased' report.

    Brain Blogger 2009

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