corroboration

Noun

Meaning

The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

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People do not want advice - they want corroboration. John Steinbeck

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House. F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. Robert Nozick

The core ideas in Hayek's metaphysical and methodological thought were, in the former, that reality is complex; and in the latter, that there should be some empirical corroboration for statements about events in the realm of nature. Alan O. Ebenstein

Among the many stories told, the one which may have received the most corroboration from multiple sources was Joey’s deployment of the vacuum cleaner as a weapon of media dispersion. Source: Internet

Amenhotep III's relations with m-w-k-i-n-u, *Mukana, have corroboration from the inscription at Kom al-Hetan - but Amenhotep's reign is thought to align with late LHIIIA:1. Source: Internet

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