: evidence that establishes immediately collateral facts from which the main fact may be inferred : circumstantial evidence
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Recent Examples on the WebThis layering of indirect evidence has helped to settle the question of where Covid jumped into humans, but the question of timing has also been a subject of fierce debate.Wired, 5 Aug. 2022 But a few spillback events have been suggested, based on indirect evidence.Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2022 That said, there is a lot of indirect evidence that the Census Bureau data do not miss huge numbers of people. Steven A. Camarota, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022 Even so, there’s some indirect evidence that this adaptation also happens in the intestines of humans. Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2020 Almost all of these discoveries, however, rely on indirect evidence: the regular brightening and dimming of a star as a planet transits across its face, or the wobble in a star’s axis caused by the gravitational pull of a nearby world. Richard Panek, Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2021 The work of the current study, provides indirect evidence of aseismic loading, and a transition from aseismic to seismic slip. David Bressan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021 And last year, researchers found indirect evidence of ribosomes in the extracellular space. Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American, 17 June 2020 On the other hand, others have lambasted the agency for being too aggressive in pushing for the approval of Aduhelm, a controversial Alzheimer’s drug, based on flimsy and indirect evidence. Haider J. Warraich, STAT, 5 Nov. 2021 See More