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evidentiary

American  
[ev-i-den-shuh-ree] / ˌɛv ɪˈdɛn ʃə ri /

adjective

  1. evidential.

  2. Law. pertaining to or constituting evidence.


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Etymology

Origin of evidentiary

1800–10; < Latin ēvidenti ( a ) evidence + -ary

Example Sentences

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During the evidentiary hearing in January 2024, nine jurors testified that they hadn’t heard such admonishments from Hill.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

So the court’s new evidentiary test does not fail by accident but by its design.

From Slate • May 22, 2026

Two years later, she moved to her current post, where she handles evidentiary hearings and mediation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

These systems are — as has been extensively and embarrassingly documented — prone to generating fabricated citations, misreading evidentiary context and issuing confident-sounding verdicts about matters they fundamentally do not understand.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

Though the case had never been solved, it had originally been a prime focus of investigators, and when I returned to New York, I gathered evidentiary material related to the crime.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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