concrete evidence

collocation in English

meaningsofconcreteandevidence

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concrete
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/us
/ˈkɑːn.kriːt/
clear and certain, or real and existing in a form that can be seen ...
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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 ofconcreteandevidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconcrete evidence

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Concreteevidencesuggests that vaporization resistant impurities are responsible for laser-cone formation.
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There is no end ofconcreteevidenceof this.
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Therefore, there is littleconcreteevidencefor imitation or teaching by cetaceans.
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First, moreconcreteevidenceon potential application areas should be found.
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The fact that the world around us appears as a volumetric spatial structure is direct andconcreteevidencefor a spatial representation in the brain.
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In our view, the added strophes should rather be seen as preciousconcreteevidenceof an early reader's response to the manuscript.
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Mostly, the available observations about the sense of lack in the lives of middle class persons appear speculative rather than based onconcreteevidence.
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Moreover, they provide the onlyconcreteevidencefor propositionality in minimal semantic content.
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I have seen noconcreteevidencethat contradicts their testimony.
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Concreteevidence, however, has been obtained only in the case of cerebral and coronary thrombosis.
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The importance of their work is that it providesconcreteevidencethat two (seemingly very different) abstract machines can indeed be related to one another within a larger design space.
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Louisiana's courthouse cliques and their landed sponsors demandedconcreteevidencethat their historic hammerlock on parochial government would continue.
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Barring some extensive andconcreteevidenceof "psychological coercion" or something of the sort, the more reasonable assumption is that this count was a true expression of soldier opinion.
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Some crimes, although not insubstantial in themselves, yield noconcreteevidencefor charges.
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It isconcreteevidenceof the need to deal with this kind of case in a far more modern way.
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For one thing, statutory monitoring has established facts—hard andconcreteevidence—about the actual employment situation.
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These examples are surelyconcreteevidencethat there has been a deliberate run down of the service over a considerable period.
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I am not sure that we had anyconcreteevidenceat all.
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