circumstantial evidence
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The prosecutors built much of their case on circumstantial evidence.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
As investigators awaited the results of the DNA test, they gathered circumstantial evidence.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
One juror told the media that she and her peers didn’t buy the “holdover” explanation, and weren’t convinced by mostly circumstantial evidence connecting Rinderknect to the original fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
But plausible profiles can be constructed through circumstantial evidence, what we know about both nature and the lifestyle of Pompeiians, and where a survivor might have turned up later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
We say that such Evidence-Indices is circumstantial evidence, where the legal understanding of ‘circumstantial’ essentially means ‘contextual’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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