well-attested
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Another well-attested factor is continuing gender polarization.
From Salon
As for me, my cards are always on the table: I wish the Democrats would run a left-populist with sincere, well-attested antipathy toward Wall Street, oil and gas, welfare reform and war, who is willing to fight hard to win Medicare-for-all and drastically reverse our current course on climate change.
From Washington Post
The idea of using playmate robots for therapeutic purposes came from a well-attested observation in the literature on children with autism: Early intervention can help them acquire cognitive and social skills they would otherwise be incapable of developing.
From Slate
After that initial colonization from Asia, the sole well-attested further contacts between the New World and Asia involved only hunter-gatherers living on opposite sides of the Bering Strait, plus an inferred transpacific voyage that introduced the sweet potato from South America to Polynesia.
From Literature
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That trend is clearest for writing: in contrast to western Eurasia, which produced a plethora of early writing systems, such as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Hittite, Minoan, and the Semitic alphabet, China developed just a single well-attested writing system.
From Literature
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