corroboration

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Corroboration was almost always difficult to come by, in part because Mexican property and financial records were easy to obscure.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022

Corroboration is not required for a court to grant the kind of temporary ex parte protective order granted to Bauer’s accuser, the pitcher’s attorney said.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

Corroboration can help to stand up for what’s good in the world by aligning with the victim, or can create a team-of-two mentality that combusts into something evil.

From Time • Oct. 11, 2016

Corroboration is where you have two pieces of evidence, backing each other up, to put before a jury or a sheriff.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2013

Corroboration of this report was sent in various directions that it might increase and be disseminated outside the kingdom, in order not to give information to those whom the Spaniards had reason to fear.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander