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- Is evidence countable? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The weight of evidence; two cans of coffee, 3 loaves of bread 4 bottles of wine, and so on The containers are countable but not the contents The ' weights of evidence' would be wrong because 'evidence' is an abstract concept We can't touch 'evidence' but 'types of evidence' such as hair samples, photographs, documents are countable
- Evidenced in or by? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Evidenced Be or show evidence of: 'The quality of the bracelet, as evidenced by the workmanship, is exceptional' The thing that is being achieved in your sample sentence is the evidencing of the "ability to collaborate with people from culturally diverse backgrounds", the means of achieving it is the "success in the US, Europe and Asia "
- Whats the difference in meaning between evidence and proof?
Evidence means:- A thing or things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment: The broken window was evidence that a burglary had taken place Scientists weigh the evidence for and against a hypothesis [American Heritage Dictionary via the Free Dictionary] Proof means:- The evidence or argument that compels the mind to accept an assertion as
- Another evidence - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
This is because evidence is a non-count noun, so you can't talk about "an evidence" or "another evidence" This was previously addressed in the question, "Is 'evidence' countable?" You could talk about "more evidence" or "further evidence" to avoid the wordier (but just as correct) "another piece of evidence"
- Indian comes from Italian Spanish gente in dios (God-like people . . .
In the present case, we have no evidence that Columbus ever recorded the phrase " gente in Dios "; the paper trail for the claimed etymology (at this point) goes no farther back than 1981; its most likely popularizer had no academic background in linguistics; and (as far as I know) no professional etymologist has argued in favor of the claimed
- american english - Is evidence as a verb an Americanism? - English . . .
But when evidence is "correctly" used as a verb, it has the sense of establish by evidence, to make evident, demonstrate, prove By most people's standards, OP's cited usage is simply "incorrect", since it's obviously being used there with the intended meaning ratify, validate (by signing the relevant forms documentation)
- A verb that means “to prove someone is guilty of a crime”
Questions If “to frame” someone is to plant evidence that ‘proves’ an innocent person is guilty, is there a verb that means: to find evidence that unequivocally proves a person is guilty? Perhaps there is an obscure legal term hidden in OED, or maybe an obsolete expression, which escapes me Here is my student's sentence with the blank space Lucy realized she had the proof to
- As evidenced by or as evident by? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Evidence can be a verb; whether it is too archaic to use is a personal view Evident cannot be, so as evident by is wrong, possibly an eggcorn
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