relatingtoinformationthatprovessomething:She had no first-handknowledgeof any of theprobativefactsin thecase.(Definition ofprobativefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofprobative
probativeUsing only the most rigorous design, on the other hand, ignores theprobativeimportance of replication and corroboration that multiple studies afford.From theCambridge English CorpusIf we approach this problem by applying it to the case ofprobativestatements, then it is worth making some additional observations.From theCambridge English CorpusThe dialogue form of the paper means that it is suggestive rather thanprobative.From theCambridge English CorpusNearly every attempt at segregation, whether due to an insight, assessment ofprobativeforce, or feeling, is frustrated by the general parity.From theCambridge English CorpusIt could mean that theprobativevalue of the evidence in question was unchanged by the examination, though that seems highly implausible.From theCambridge English CorpusNevertheless, for the sake of argument, assume that my response so far to the objection is notprobative.From theCambridge English CorpusOn the whole, these three classes have generated substantially more,probativeevidence to support judgment about their member therapies than have the others.From theCambridge English CorpusIndeed, these data suggest four important revisions of our understanding of experiments involving interventions and theirprobativerole in theories of social influence.From theCambridge English CorpusIn practice, two factors conspire to limit the pool of suffixes that areprobativein evaluating the behaviour of suffixes with respect to pitch accents.From theCambridge English CorpusTheprobativevalue of fingerprint identification still could not be vouched for by statistics.From theCambridge English CorpusYet five commentators suggested that these reports are not soprobative.From theCambridge English CorpusAlternatively, it might simply mean that the evidence in question, even in light of such critical examination, still has nontrivialprobativevalue.From theCambridge English CorpusBut if these introspections are notprobativeanyway, then demanding them from animals is inappropriate and involves a theoretical space that is artificial.From theCambridge English CorpusThe failure to buckle up is taken asprobativeevidence of a failure to reason precisely because compliance is seen as low cost.From theCambridge English CorpusIf this is so, we can conclude that in the case of free evaluation of evidence,probativestatements are linked to belief.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/probative##
