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An English police officer faces a criminal investigation for allegedly using AI to create evidential material, a UK first that Derbyshire Constabulary calls perverting the course of justice.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2026 The Portuguese The quest for wealth and knowledge might logically have pulled the Portuguese to Australian shores; the assumption has some evidential support, including a reference indicating that Melville Island, off the northern coast, supplied slaves.—Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026 Evidence was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service, which determined the evidential threshold was not met to bring charges.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2026 The seeming absoluteness of scientific thinking may predispose many medical practitioners or public health workers to assume the populace trust them, that evidential claims naturally validate interventions — no further Q&A needed.—
Cory Anderson,
STAT,
6 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for evidential