compelling evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcompellingandevidence
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compelling
adjective
uk/kəmˈpel.ɪŋ/us/kəmˈpel.ɪŋ/
If a reason, argument, etc. is compelling, it makes you believe it or accept it because it is ...
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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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To providecompellingevidencefor adaptation, however, homologous traits must play the same functional roles in human and nonhuman species.
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We have foundcompellingevidenceagainst this view as it pertains to the patterning and timing of glottalisation.
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In this regard, she notes that there is nocompellingevidencethat synaptic modifications play any direct role in the storage of memories.
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In fact, this paper has provided somecompellingevidencethat just the opposite is the case.
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From your perspective, what do you think is the mostcompellingevidencein favor of the divergence, nonconvexity, multiplesteady-state perspective?
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In particular, nocompellingevidencesupports the hypothesis of time-limited stores.
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The firstcompellingevidencefor distinct cortical systems in vision was presented only three years after his death.
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The mostcompellingevidencefor hydrogen production is available from active hydrothermal vent sites.
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She also uncoverscompellingevidenceabout the ways that changing practices of sexuality and gender roles provoked anxieties, especially among urban elites and government officials.
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But there is a vast difference between adequate evidence andcompellingevidence.
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There is also littlecompellingevidencethat phonological skills are in any way atypical.
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Though she offerscompellingevidencefor many interesting hypotheses as to the epigenesis of language, other possibilities have yet to be explored.
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Again, then, there is nocompellingevidencefor nonconscious cross-modular thinking - rather the opposite, in fact.
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Overall, there is nocompellingevidencein support of the view of the so-called "storm and stress hypothesis" of normal adolescence.
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The typical "affective" nature of hallucinations in schizophrenia providescompellingevidencefor subcortical involvement.
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There is thus nocompellingevidencethat the majority of these past tense forms actually contrast with other inflected forms.
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To that end, she marshals somecompellingevidence.
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There is, in fact, nocompellingevidencefor hunting.
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Contrary to thecompellingevidenceon the limited availability of consumptionsmoothing credit, empirical evidence on the adequacy of short-term production credit is mixed.
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