observational evidence

collocation in English

meaningsofobservationalandevidence

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observational
adjective
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/ˌɒb.zəˈveɪ.ʃən.əl/us
/ˌɑːb.zɚˈveɪ.ʃən.əl/
involving watching someone or something carefully and closely, in order to ...
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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 ofobservationalandevidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Although theobservationalevidenceis strong, these assumptions need to be confirmed by experimental studies.
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Based on the theories and someobservationalevidencethe long chain hydrocarbons slowly accumulate on the surface.
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Since then, the subject has been developing at a rapid pace, so that the theoretical developments have largely outstripped the too scarce (indirect)observationalevidence.
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Directobservationalevidenceto confirm the validity of these models is suggestive, but not conclusive.
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We have overwhelmingobservationalevidencethat deception plays an important role in the struggle to survive.
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There appears to be noobservationalevidencefor such anisotropy.
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However, there are justifiable reasons not to reject it too quickly on the basis of the status of currentobservationalevidence.
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However, despite the blocking efforts of the "conservatives," the attribution of culture to nonhumans based purely onobservationalevidencehas become a well-established part of the scientific process.
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Cohort studies provide a strong level ofobservationalevidence.
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This circumstantial evidence—perhaps it might more correctly be calledobservationalevidence—is significant.
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Empiricism is the emphasis onobservationalevidencevia sensory experience over other evidence as the source of knowledge.
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Uniform cooling of the cosmic microwave background over billions of years is strong and directobservationalevidencefor metric expansion.
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This resistance may not be an aversion to pain caused by the insemination, asobservationalevidencesuggests that insects do not feel pain.
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There is goodobservationalevidencethat smoke-free legislation reduces the number of hospital admissions for heart disease.
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Researchers have noobservationalevidencefor wormholes, but the equations of the theory of general relativity have valid solutions that contain wormholes.
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One piece ofobservationalevidenceis the distribution of matter, including galaxies and intergalactic gas, which are observed today.
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His early research obtainedobservationalevidencethat verified a prediction that our galaxy is surrounded by a halo of hot ionised gas.
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The former are unlikely to exist fromobservationalevidence.
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This can be considered the firstobservationalevidenceof the solar rotation.
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Confidence levels were assigned based on the authors' collective expert judgment ofobservationalevidence, modeling results, and theory that they had examined.
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