How to Use indirect evidence in a Sentence

indirect evidence

noun

• One way is to flesh out the indirect evidence of market share.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 29 June 2021
• There was some indirect evidence that gas was present in the region, Bacon said.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 17 Mar. 2021
• So the new studies sought to infer the state of the circulation from more indirect evidence.
  — Chris Mooney, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• This approach, known as indirect evidence, is the one the FTC takes in its December filing.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 29 June 2021
• 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
• The debate is hard to settle in part because researchers often rely on indirect evidence, since most dead whales aren’t found.
  — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• 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 a company’s share of the industry could be indirect evidence.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 6 Sep. 2019
• Wang mentions other factors for which there is indirect evidence, such as parental use of opioids and exposure to a loved one's suicide.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• But a few spillback events have been suggested, based on indirect evidence.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 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
• But an increasing number of reports offered indirect evidence from the iPhone 13 supply chain suggesting the new iPhone will launch on time.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2021
• That forced Stone and his colleagues to rely on indirect evidence, leading to a difficult series of efforts to determine when the craft had truly crossed over.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2016
• This 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
• Over the past few decades, indirect evidence has surfaced for microbial communities on land during the Archean.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Shatz now had indirect evidence that the layers were formed in response to retinal signaling, coded for not by experience but by genes.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
• Nielsen has plenty of indirect evidence that the microbes are living conductors.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2012
• There are two ways to show market power: indirect evidence and direct evidence.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 19 Aug. 2021
• There has been pretty good indirect evidence for gravitational waves for a while.
  — Jeffrey Wilkerson, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016
• Astronomers believe they are needed as building blocks for the supermassive black holes, and there is indirect evidence for their existence, but this may be the most convincing sighting yet, albeit right at the bottom of the range.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 2 Sep. 2020
• Since the braided organic materials used to make string and rope are rarely preserved, the researchers behind the new study relied on indirect evidence: namely, five ocher-laden shells found in northern Israel.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2020
• The Fermilab experiment offers only indirect evidence, hinting at new laws of physics through the muon.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2021
• 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
• And the presence of a halo of WIMPs around galaxies would explain why the galaxies rotate faster than expected at their outskirts — the most compelling indirect evidence that dark matter exists.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2014
• Attorneys usually try to prove their case with indirect evidence, such as a defendant’s hiring record.
  — Liz Kowalczyk, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• One issue fueling debate: Researchers rely on indirect evidence, since most dead whales aren’t found.
  — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• Several years ago, observations of the behaviour of pairs of dead stars called pulsars provided indirect evidence that such waves are real.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2017
• Phosphine can be made by volcanism and lightning, but it can also be made by microbes, which raises the possibility that this discovery was indirect evidence of alien life.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
• And last year, researchers found indirect evidence of ribosomes in the extracellular space.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
• In its initial complaint, the FTC only offered indirect evidence, and very little of it: that feeble 60 percent statistic, which Boasberg ruled was inadequate.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 19 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024