convincing evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconvincingandevidence
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convincing
adjective
uk/kənˈvɪn.sɪŋ/us/kənˈvɪn.sɪŋ/
able to make you believe that something is true ...
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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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A recent overview, however,84 failed to findconvincingevidencethat specialist epilepsy nurses improve outcomes for people with epilepsy overall.
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Noconvincingevidenceexists to link per capita natural resource demand with population size.
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And most significantly, there is littleconvincingevidencethat men and women's agricultural work had ever been interchangeable.
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We have noconvincingevidenceof art, or personal ornamentation, or anything that clearly was an artifact of symbolic culture.
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In contrast, lexical memory and hearing appear to be relatively spared, and there is noconvincingevidencefor a general cognitive deficit.
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When those problems were taken into account, there was no longer anyconvincingevidence.
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So what we need is something close to the "clear andconvincingevidence" standard that has been employed by the courts to decide euthanasia cases.
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However, studies of semantic processing in older individuals has failed to findconvincingevidenceof any residual abnormalities resulting from compensatory strategies.
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We find substantial andconvincingevidencethat pension reforms are followed by pro-investor legislation.
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This process is closely examined, and the author providesconvincingevidencefor his case.
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Noconvincingevidencefor rheumatoid arthritis prior to the seventeenth century can be found in either the paleopathology literature or early medical writings.
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From the perspective of interspecific density dependence, however, many earlier studies failed to deliverconvincingevidencefor at least 3 reasons.
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In neither case do we findconvincingevidencethat the intermediation process is an important element of aggregate fluctuations.
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Convincingevidenceis also a matter of presentation and rhetoric.
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Furthermore, the data show noconvincingevidencethat social mobility had any effect on extensive social contacts between generations.
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Some of the mostconvincingevidencefor genetic correlations among life history traits in flies comes from correlated responses to selection in replicated experiments.
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There is noconvincingevidencefor rule learning, or for the existence of unconscious knowledge.
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The point that developmental plasticity and reaction norms may be continuously distributed is notconvincingevidencefor his argument.
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Guidance can also be obtained from the courts concerning what counts as clear andconvincingevidence.
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