collateral evidence

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By restricting ourselves to this subset of information supported by collateral evidence, we can make out some basic themes.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2023

He will have no say in the agonised discussions to follow, except as collateral evidence.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2018

But if they had all this collateral evidence, then they didn't need my client at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

We cannot say, with any certainty, unless by discovery of some collateral evidence, whether this head is intended for that of a god, or demi-god, or a mortal warrior.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

He is presumed to have married a daughter of Fortescue of Essex, but the collateral evidence on which the supposition is founded is too slight to be satisfactory.

From Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George