PROBATORY Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

probatory

adjective

ˈprō-bə-ˌtȯr-ē

as in supportive

serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something an abundance of probatory data linking smoking to cancer

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Adjective

Fulbright shepherded the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through the Senate in 1964, but two years later, his probative hearings helped shift public opinion against the war.

James Goldgeier, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018
The length of the trial was due to a combination of appeals and the prosecution’s strategy to present as much evidence as possible to entertain multiple paths to conviction, even when such evidence was of little probative value.

Tatiana Carayannis, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2016

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