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
  • So far, though, no such indirect evidence of new physics has been detected.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
  • There was some indirect evidence that gas was present in the region, Bacon said.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 17 Mar. 2021
  • But a few spillback events have been suggested, based on indirect evidence.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2022
  • So the new studies sought to infer the state of the circulation from more indirect evidence.
    — Chris Mooney, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • And a company’s share of the industry could be indirect evidence.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 6 Sep. 2019
  • There has been pretty good indirect evidence for gravitational waves for a while.
    — Jeffrey Wilkerson, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016
  • Even so, there’s some indirect evidence that this adaptation also happens in the intestines of humans.
    — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Nielsen has plenty of indirect evidence that the microbes are living conductors.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2012
  • 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
  • Attorneys usually try to prove their case with indirect evidence, such as a defendant’s hiring record.
    — Liz Kowalczyk, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Local stats and indirect evidence () suggest a spike nationwide.
    — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Over the past few decades, indirect evidence has surfaced for microbial communities on land during the Archean.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Theropod trackways as indirect evidence of pre-avian aerial behavior.
    — Margherita Bassi, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
  • This results is understood as indirect evidence in favor of selective brain cooling in humans.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2014
  • Other indirect evidence shows that lower temperatures turn up a passion for romance.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Instead, Williams’ conviction was based on indirect evidence.
    — Jenna Greene, Reuters, 3 Oct. 2024
  • And last year, researchers found indirect evidence of ribosomes in the extracellular space.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • This approach, known as indirect evidence, is the one the FTC takes in its December filing.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 29 June 2021
  • 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
  • The Fermilab experiment offers only indirect evidence, hinting at new laws of physics through the muon.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 June 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
  • 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
  • However, there could be indirect evidence of the existence of multiple universes.
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Glacier retreats are indirect evidence for solar modulation of earth’s temperature.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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