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evidentiary

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[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

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

He dismissed statements from prosecution witnesses as "assumption layered upon hearsay" and urged the judging panel to give them "negligible evidentiary weight".

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

No definitive data exist, but the majority of the extant evidentiary scraps indicate it.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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