sufficient evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsufficientandevidence
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sufficient
adjective
uk/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/us/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/
enough for a ...
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evidence
noun[U]
uk/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/us/ˈev.ə.dəns/
one or more reasons for believing that something is or is ...
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(Definition ofsufficientandevidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsufficient evidence
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There is nowsufficientevidenceto link orexin\\hypocretin deficiency to narcolepsy.
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This is an empirical question which we do not yet havesufficientevidenceto address.
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The "ethnographic approach" that the authors favored will not providesufficientevidenceto claim the presence of culture.
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There issufficientevidenceto implicate not only frontal cortex but posterior, superior parietal cortex, as well.
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Overall, we do not havesufficientevidenceto draw conclusions about the effect of working with smaller caseloads.
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These considerations also help explain why the advance directive in scenario 3 counts assufficientevidenceof the man's wishes.
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Although far from conclusive, we believe thatsufficientevidenceexists to justify continuing investigation of the extent to which social and cosmic events were conflated.
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This finding may constitutesufficientevidenceto support the adoption of the preventive intervention in routine practice.
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The main point is that the information that an animal is heavy is notsufficientevidenceto conclude that it does not fly.
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Combined, we believe that testimonies and social controls providesufficientevidenceto verify the model.
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There issufficientevidence, certainly, to suggest that women were a critical segment of the industrial labour force at its inception.
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Nevertheless, there is ongoing controversy on whether the existence of null expletive subjects is, by itself,sufficientevidenceto classify a language as pro-drop.
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What counts as the man's informed consent, and what counts assufficientevidenceof consent?
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Or should the presumption be that the trait is an adaptation, unless there issufficientevidencethat it is a spandrel?
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We probably havesufficientevidenceon falls-risk factors and the utility of fallsrisk prediction-tools not to make these areas priorities for further investigation.
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First, preventive measures are introduced withoutsufficientevidenceof their effectiveness.
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