indirect evidence

noun

1. circumstantial evidence.

Word History and Origins

Origin of indirect evidence¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

There is indirect evidence regarding how and when animals may have appeared.

From Singularity Hub 

“There’s lots of indirect evidence that the airborne route — breathing it in — is dominant,” says Linsey Marr, a civil and environmental engineer at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, who studies viruses in the air.

From Science News

The fact that the milk and cookies are gone on Christmas morning serves as a form of indirect evidence, and when children interact with a Santa figure at the mall, it further reinforces that belief.

From Ars Technica

Whenever possible, they recorded the person’s level of formal avalanche education, and they also ranked the person’s experience based on indirect evidence available in incident reports and interviews.

From Outside Online

Additionally, if inflation happened, it was so early on that we can only ever see indirect evidence for it.

From The Daily Beast

We have indirect evidence enough, however, to make good the statements in the preceding paragraphs.

From Project Gutenberg

Comparisons may be made between the two signs; but this is secondary or indirect evidence, and depends largely on argument.

From Project Gutenberg

The progress of the individual mind is not only an illustration, but an indirect evidence of that of the general mind.

From Project Gutenberg

For it throws us entirely upon such indirect evidence as he may (so to speak) involuntarily afford.

From Project Gutenberg

Let us now turn to another and much more important line of indirect evidence in favour of moderated Lamarckianism.

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